the Lord. Since this part belongs to the devil, the battle between the church and the devil takes place both from without, through the persecution of pagans, and from within, through the more subtle persecution of the false brothers. Commenting on Revelation 2:10, Tyconius writes, “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer, surely from the whole body of the devil, which besieges the church in the whole world from inside and from outside.”58 The church’s continual conflict with