1 Corinthians 2:14

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

and in another place, "But the animal man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; "[109]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

A spiritual disciple of this sort truly receiving the Spirit of God, who was from the beginning, in all the dispensations of God, present with mankind, and announced things future, revealed things present, and narrated things past-[such a man] does indeed "judge all men, but is himself judged by no man."[456]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

For men of this stamp do indeed say that they believe in the Father and the Son, but they never meditate as they should upon the things of God, neither are they adorned with works of righteousness; but, as I have already observed, they have adopted the lives of swine and of dogs, giving themselves over to filthiness, to gluttony, and recklessness of all sorts. Justly, therefore, did the apostle call all such "carnal" and "animal,"[57]

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

knowledge, then, consists in the understanding of Christ, which Paul terms the wisdom of God hidden in a mystery, which "the natural man receiveth not,"[63]

Address of Tatian to the Greeks

And only by those whom the Spirit of God dwells in and fortifies are the bodies of the demons easily seen, not at all by others,-I mean those who possess only soul;[46]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him."[145]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

For he recognises the spiritual man and the Gnostic as the disciple of the Holy Spirit dispensed by God, which is the mind of Christ. "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit, for they are foolishness to him."[61]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book II

to man; then especially good, when not good in man's judgment; then especially unique, when He seems to man to be two or more. Now, if from the very first "the natural man, not receiving the things of the Spirit of God,"[28]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

because he is overshadowed with the power of God,-a point concerning which there is a question between us and the carnally-minded.[854]

Tertullian On Fasting

with reference to Christ and the Church, and no longer being "capable of the things which were the Spirit's,"[20]

Origen Against Celsus Book VI

Celsus accordingly, as not understanding the doctrine relating to the Spirit of God ("for the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned"[372]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI

Wherefore, he says, "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; "[92]

Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith

And again he says: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God."[57]

The Epistle of Pope Urban First

We receive of the Holy Spirit in order that we may be made spiritual; for the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.[17]

Origen Commentary on John Book II

into form and into illumination and into an outline of its own." He did not observe how Paul speaks of the spiritual,[56]