Ephesians 6:12

Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians "For we wrestle not against blood and flesh, but against principalities and powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places."[95]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

to Him, and that He should execute just judgment towards all; that He may send "spiritual wickednesses,"[135]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

videlicet qui peccant. "Quoniam nobis est colluctatio non adversus camem et sanguinere, sed adversus spiritalia."[199]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV " But if one should captiously say, And how is it possible for feeble flesh to resist the energies and spirits of the Powers?[70]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

has called "the day here nocturnal," as I suppose, on account of "the world-rulers of this darkness; "[185]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII

Angels and gods are spectators; and the contest, embracing all the varied exercises, is "not against flesh and blood,"[30]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

Of what use are two gods to me, when the discipline is but one? If there must be two, I mean to follow Him who was the first to teach the lesson. But as our struggle lies against "the rulers of this world,"[853]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

does he not show that all the things which he mentions after the devil's name really belong to the devil-"the principalities and the powers, and the tillers of the darkness of this world,"[856]

Tertullian Against the Valentinians

sorrow, from which they also derive the birth of the angels, and demons, and all the wicked spirits. Yet they affirm that the devil is the work of the Demiurge, and they call him Munditenens[225]

Tertullian On Fasting

But ours are other thews and other sinews, just as our contests withal are other; we whose "wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the world's[124]

Origen de Principiis Book III

not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."[269]

Origen de Principiis Book III

The declaration, indeed, in the Epistle to the Ephesians, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,"[301]

Origen Against Celsus Book VIII

and who are ever engaged in contests with them, knowing that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."[75]

Cyprian Epistle LV

Wherefore put on the whole armour, that ye may be able to withstand in the most evil day, that when ye have done all ye may stand; having your loins girt about with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace; taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one; and the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."[21]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

le armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the most evil day; that when ye have accomplished all, ye may stand, having your loins girt in the truth of the Gospel, putting on the breastplate of righteousness, and having your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace; in all things taking the shield of faith, in which ye may extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."[818]

Novation On the Jewish Meats

Therefore as you run, I exhort you; and as you watch, I stir you up; and as you contend against "the spiritual things of wickedness,"[3]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

and the god and prince of the age of this world, who blinds the minds of men that they may not be obedient to the truth in the Gospel of Christ?[107]

Methodius Discourse VI. Agathe

For being made after the image of the Only-begotten, as I said, it has an unsurpassable beauty, and therefore evil spirits[2]

Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection "for we wrestle not against flesh and blood; "[79]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

so as, while preserving the historic truth of the events, to understand the unerring principle of mystic interpretation applied to things spiritual, so that the things learned may not be "spiritual things whose characteristic is wickedness,"[68]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

one gate is opposed, the gate of knowledge which is free from falsehood. But consider if, because of the saying, "our wrestling is not against flesh and blood,"[95]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

, you can say that each power and world-ruler of this darkness, and each one of the "spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places"[96]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

Perhaps, therefore, you would not err if you said, that such persons, so to speak, are epileptic spiritually, having been cast down by "the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places,"[42]