...against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenlies " (Eph. vi. 12). How can we be certain that it is not with spirits such as these that Spiritualists...

...against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the vorldrulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Wherefore take up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand iu the evil day, and having...

...apt to find lodgment in the memory forever. The verse that here calls for interpretation reads: "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." This is one of the passages that have seemed to justify scholars in regarding Paul as a mystic. It...

...disclosures of its piety and practice. Cf. J. Dupont. Gnosis, Paris 1949, 261 ff. 90 See above, note 82. against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual manifestations (jivEVncmxu) of wickedness in the heavenly warfare.' The opponents in 2 Corinthians...

...spirits behind the scenes (Dan. 10:13, 20-21). Paul plainly teaches that the Christian warfare is not "against flesh and blood, but against the principalities,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12). Responsible exegesis cannot limit this to hostile earthly power structures or dehumanizing...

...well: Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places [Eph. 6:11-12]. Satan is no longer a messenger and servant of God — as in the Old Testament — but...

...opposition, but with an unseen, hellish host. Another New Testament writer was to voice the same idea: "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph.6:12). Probably it is this eschatological context, this interpretation of Jesus' ministry in terms...

...demons, and our contending is against these, as the Apostle said—not against flesh and hlood, hut against the principalities, against the powers, against...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 45 So the mob of them is great in the air around us, and they are not far from us. But the difference...

...appears to have been one of his favorite Scriptural quotations [800] ; namely, Ephesians 6: 1 2: "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." This conception is obviously parallel to the Jewish myth, underlying the Hekhalot, of the human invasion...

...wherever we find it. With Jesus, and in his might, ourselves protected by him, "we are. . .contending against . . . the principalities, against the powers,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:10-17). We must not forget that there is a battle to be waged against evil, and that faith...