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Ephesians 2:2

the course of this world—the career (literally, "the age," compare Galatians 1:4), or present system of this world (I Corinthians 2:6, I Corinthians 2:12; I Corinthians 3:18-19, as opposed to "the world to come"): alien from God, and lying in the wicked one (I John 5:19). "The age" (which is something more external and ethical) regulates "the world" (which is something more external).

the prince of the power of the air—the unseen God who lies underneath guiding "the course of this world" (II Corinthians 4:4); ranging through the air around us: compare Mark 4:4, "fowls of the air" (Greek, "heaven") that is, (Ephesians 2:15), "Satan" and his demons. Compare Ephesians 6:12; John 12:31. Christ's ascension seems to have cast Satan out of heaven (Revelation 12:5, Revelation 12:9-10, Revelation 12:12-13), where he had been heretofore the accuser of the brethren (Job 1:6-11). No longer able to accuse in heaven those justified by Christ, the ascended Saviour (Romans 8:33-34), he assails them on earth with all trials and temptations; and "we live in an atmosphere poisonous and impregnated with deadly elements. But a mighty purification of the air will be effected by Christ's coming" [AUBERLEN], for Satan shall be bound (Revelation 12:12-13, Revelation 12:15, Revelation 12:17; Revelation 20:2-3). "The power" is here used collectively for the "powers of the air"; in apposition with which "powers" stand the "spirits," comprehended in the singular, "the spirit," taken also collectively: the aggregate of the "seducing spirits" (I Timothy 4:1) which "work now (still; not merely, as in your case, 'in time past') in the sons of disobedience" (a Hebraism: men who are not merely by accident disobedient, but who are essentially sons of disobedience itself: compare Matthew 3:7), and of which Satan is here declared to be "the prince." The Greek does not allow "the spirit" to refer to Satan, "the prince" himself, but to "the powers of the air" of which he is prince. The powers of the air are the embodiment of that evil "spirit" which is the ruling principle of unbelievers, especially the heathen (Acts 26:18), as opposed to the spirit of the children of God (Luke 4:33). The potency of that "spirit" is shown in the "disobedience" of the former. Compare Deuteronomy 32:20, "children in whom is no faith" (Isaiah 30:9; Isaiah 57:4). They disobey the Gospel both in faith and practice (II Thessalonians 1:8; II Corinthians 2:12).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ephesians 2:2:

Job 1:6
Job 1:16
Song of Solomon 8:5
Daniel 7:12
Matthew 5:13-16
Romans 12:2
1 Corinthians 2:12
2 Corinthians 4:4
2 Corinthians 10:5
Galatians 3:5
Ephesians 2:3
Ephesians 2:3
Ephesians 2:7
Ephesians 3:10
Ephesians 5:6
Ephesians 6:12
Colossians 1:13
Colossians 2:13
Colossians 3:11
Titus 1:16
Hebrews 2:5

 

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