pale denotes the conflict set against rulers, authorities, and spiritual forces of evil.

The attested use names a conflict directed not against blood and flesh but against rulers, authorities, world powers of darkness, and spiritual forces of evil.

1. Conflict against hostile powers · dominant

   In Ephesians 6:12, the nominative singular feminine form introduces the clause contrasting this conflict with one against blood and flesh and setting it against rulers, authorities, world powers of darkness, and spiritual forces of evil. The APB renders the clause, "For our struggle is not against blood and flesh."

   Ephesians 6:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ephesians 6:12, the APB presents the term in the clause "For our struggle is not against blood and flesh,".