One extra-biblical author uses the aleph for ''war''. <ref>Gospel of Thomas saying 16: Jesus said, "Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary."</ref> This symbol agrees with biblical doctrine of a war between God and man, the spirit and the flesh. <ref>[[Ro 8:7]] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.</ref>