The following comes from Tyconius, Exposition of the Apocalypse, Book 4:
[7] And a war was waged
in heaven, that is, in the church. Michael and his angels fight with the
dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought. He calls Christ “Michael” and
holy people “his angels,” as Daniel says: “Then Michael arises at that time,
that great archangel who presides over the sons of your people. And at that time
there will be tribulation such as there has never been from [the time] the
nations began to exist up to that hour.” For may it never be that we should
believe that with his angels the devil, who besought from the Lord that he
might strike one man on earth, Job, had dared to fight in heaven. For he
received authority for fighting with the seed of the woman, that is, with the saints,
not with the Son of God or his angels. He fights in heaven with Christ, but in
the church with [Christ] clothed with man. (Tyconius, Exposition of the
Apocalypse [trans. Francis X. Gumerlock; The Fathers of the Church 134;
Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017], 127)
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