The apostle warned us that our fight is not with individual foes (how simple the problem and how simple the solution were Nixon the enemy, or even the men who direct the great transnational corporations that own little men like Nixon) but with principalities and powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with spiritual hosts of wickedness of a superhuman sort (Eph. (religion-online.org)
the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many - headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras» heads. (goodreads.com)
And if salvation was to come, the only hope of it lay in the interior cleansing of the people's spirit — «O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. (religion-online.org)