For 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 heavenly places.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Videlicet qui peccant. "Quoniam nobis est colluctatio non ad versus camem et sanguinere, sed ad versus spiritalia.".
"But if one should captiously say, And how is it possible for feeble flesh to resist the energies and spirits of the Powers?.
Has called "the day here nocturnal "as I suppose, on account of "the world-rulers of this darkness; ".
Angels and gods are spectators; and the contest, embracing all the varied exercises, is "not against flesh and blood"