Douggg
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As for the "rulers" ('archonton tou aionos') of 1 Cor 2, you'll have to supply reasons why that is the transcendant group known as the ruling spirits ('stoicheia') of Gal 4 and Col 2, and the list in Eph 6 (which to be sure includes 'archas' but lumps its list with the forces in the 'epouranious' where Christ reigns; you would have to say Pilate and Caiaphas were in both places at once.)
The princes of this world would be Satan and the demons because involved in the persecution of Christ, Satan entered Judas to betray Christ, in the effort to put to death the messiah - who Satan and his demons feared would usher in the kingdom of God to replace their dominion in the nations.
Satan is called the prince of this world, John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Even though Jesus spoke to the disciples about his death and what it would result in, the gospel was sealed from "understanding", i.e kept a secret. In Luke 24:44-45 , Jesus as he opened the disciples' "understanding" of the things he told them about prior to his crucifixion.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
As far as the princes of this world also being the demons, in Pslams 22 is Christ on the cross...
1<> My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
The bulls of Bashan are demons, which they would have possessed many of them present, like Satan entered Judas, to shout for Jesus's death.
Bashan is a location near the Golan Heights where the Rephaim were supposed to have a stronghold there. When the Rephaim died they became the demons, unclean spirits.
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