Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus They are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh.[21] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II And again he says, "Though in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh."[254] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the demolition of fortifications, demolishing thoughts, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of Christ."[87] Origen Against Celsus Book V '" And this is the only phrase which, it appears, Celsus could remember out of Paul's writings; and yet why should we not also employ innumerable other quotations from the Scriptures, such as, "For though we do walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh; (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God? "[204] Origen Against Celsus Book VII We say, then, that those who are stigmatized as "lamed and mutilated in spirit," as "living only for the sake of the body which is dead," are persons whose endeavour it is to say with sincerity: "For though we live[107]