87.  Of external warfare I am not afraid, nor of that wild beast, and fulness of evil, who has now arisen against the churches, though he may threaten fire, sword, wild beasts, precipices, chasms; though he may show himself more inhuman than all previous madmen, and discover fresh tortures of greater severity.  I have one remedy for them all, one road to victory; I will glory in Christ260    Phil. iii. 3. namely, death for Christ’s sake.

ΠΖʹ. Καὶ τὸν μὲν ἔξωθεν οὐ δέδοικα πόλεμον, οὐδὲ τὸν νῦν ἐπαναστάντα θῆρα ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις, καὶ τοῦ πονηροῦ τὸ πλήρωμα, κἂν πῦρ ἀπειλῇ, κἂν ξίφη, κἂν θῆρας, κἂν κρημνοὺς, κἂν βάραθρα, κἂν πάντων γένηται τῶν πώποτε μανέντων ἀπανθρωπότατος, κἂν ταῖς οὔσαις τιμωρίαις προσεξεύρῃ χαλεπωτέρας. Ἓν ἔχω πρὸς πάντα φάρμακον, μίαν ὁδὸν εἰς νίκην: Ἐν Χριστῷ καυχήσομαι, τὸν ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ θάνατον.