Editing Tyconius (section)

==Works==
Ticonius's best known work was his commentary on the [[Revelation]], which, like [[Origen]], he interpreted almost entirely in a spiritual sense. He asserted that the book depicts the spiritual controversy over the kingdom of God. This work is lost, but some essential parts survive as quotes in [[Augustine]], [[Primasius]], [[Bede]], and [[Beatus of Liébana]]'s ''[[Commentary on the Apocalypse]]''.

To outline his general conceptions, he laid down his ''Seven Rules'', quoted and explained by Augustine in ''[[De doctrina christiana]].''

Augustine's authority gave them great importance for nearly a thousand years in the West.
# "''De domino et corpore ejus'', that is, about the Lord and His body, or church. 
# "''De domini corpore bipartitio'', or "on the twofold body of the Lord." 
# "''De promissis et lege'', "on the promises and the law." 
# "''De specie et genere'', "concerning species and genus"; that is, it is permissible to take a ''species'' of the text, and to understand thereby the ''genus'' to which it belongs——to reach the abstract thought from the concrete picture. (This led to fanciful, symbolic or mystical interpretations.)
# "''De temporibus'', or "concerning times," which reveal the mystic measure of time in the Bible——a part of time standing for the whole, as in the three days between the death and the resurrection of Christ—or the mystical value of numbers, especially 7, 10, and I2. 
# "''De recapitulatione'', "on recapitulation," which states that in the book of Revelation the narrative is not continuous, but repeats itself and goes over the same ground under new and different symbols.
# "''De diabolo et ejus corpore'', "on Satan and his body," an exact analogy to Christ and His body. As Christ is represented in His church, the elect, or righteous, so Satan is represented in the ''corpus malorum'', the evildoers, or the body of the rejected."
|Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 1, page 467.