Ephesians 2:2

Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians

Flee, therefore, the wicked devices and snares of the spirit which now worketh in the children of this world,[55]

Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans

of the apostles, who stirred up the multitude of the Jews against the Lord, who also now "worketh in the children of disobedience;[52]

Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians

And indeed, before the cross was erected, he (Satan) was eager that it should be so; and he "wrought" [for this end] "in the children of disobedience."[25]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

Just as if any one, being an apostate, and seizing in a hostile manner another man's territory, should harass the inhabitants of it, in order that he might claim for himself the glory of a king among those ignorant of his apostasy and robbery; so likewise also the devil, being one among those angels who are placed over the spirit of the air, as the Apostle Paul has declared in his Epistle to the Ephesians,[214]

Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen

In obedience to the apostolic injunction, therefore, let us flee from "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience,"[13]

A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord

180 And deeply moved are the high air's powers,[30]

Origen de Principiis Book II

Then, if that atmosphere which is between heaven and earth is not devoid of inhabitants, and those of a rational kind, as the apostle says, "Wherein in times past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh in the children of disobedience."[199]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

but as against those who are subject to "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience."[137]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

and here, the Lord Jesus, when we were assailed and were perishing by the violence of that erring spirit who works now hi the just,[542]

The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity "according to the will of the prince of the dominion of the air, and of the spirit which works in those men who will not obey, according to the training of this world, and not according to the doctrine of Christ."[114]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

But you will consider if, as he delivered up the property of Job to those who took them captive, and to the horsemen, so also he delivered them up to a certain power, subordinate to "the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience,"[65]