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According to the course of this world (kata ton aiōna tou kosmou toutou). Curious combinations of aiōn (a period of time), kosmos (the world in that period). See note on 1Co 1:20 for “this age” and 1Co 3:9 for “this world.”
The prince of the power of the air (ton archonta tēs exousias tou aeros). Aēr was used by the ancients for the lower and denser atmosphere and aithēr for the higher and rarer. Satan is here pictured as ruler of the demons and other agencies of evil. Jesus called him “the prince of this world” (ho archōn tou kosmou toutou, Joh 16:11).
That now worketh (tou nun energountos). Those who deny the existence of a personal devil cannot successfully deny the vicious tendencies, the crime waves, in modern men. The power of the devil in the lives of men does explain the evil at work “in the sons of disobedience” (en tois huiois tēs apethias). In Eph 5:6 also. A Hebrew idiom found in the papyri like “sons of light” (1Th 5:5).