‘The Ruler of the Powers of the Air’: Ephesians 2:2 and ‘The Present World Order’.

Abstract

This paper will examine, briefly, the issue of the authorship and date of the Letter to the Ephesians, before subjecting Eph.2:2 to close analysis, asking what is meant by the Koiné Greek phrase archonta tēs exousias tou aeros, seeking to learn lessons from literature and comparative mythology regarding its symbolism, and then explaining the meaning of the phrase huiois tēs alētheias.

The Creator God as Gnostic Demiurge, the Problem of Evil, and the True Nature of 'God'.

“…The present author has discussed New Testamentand laterbelief that Satan (as the 'Prince of the Powers of the Air' of Ephesians 2:2; see Blaber, 2023d [13]) and other demons were responsible for bad, or severe, weather. Before the mechanism of disease was understood it was plausible they could be responsible for at least some instances of that, too, and (as Thomas points out, ibid.…”