Spirit of the Python

The Spirit of the Python in this damsel had its coils wrapped around the city of Philippi. It was slowly constricting and crushing the life out of this city. It was suffocating this city slowly. The city of Philippi was dying because of this spirit. It was not a quick death but a slow death. Is this not like the devil? He does not always kill with the quick poison, but sometimes he kills through a slow process of suffocation.