31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.



Ver. 31. The prince of this world] Gratian saith, the devil is called the prince of this world, as a king at chess, or as the cardinal of Ravenna, only by derision. The power he hath is merely usurped, and because the world will have it so, which even lieth down in that wicked one, as St John hath it, that is, under the power and vassalage of the devil, 1Jn_5:10. It is wholly set upon wickedness, as Aaron saith of the people, Exo_32:22.