Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
You used to live following the ways of this world, under the influence of the ruler of the spiritual realm, that destructive force that's still at work in people who resist God.
Before God, you were living under the wrong influence, following a world that leads nowhere good.
📚 Historical Context
In the first century AD, the city of Ephesus was a major center of Roman culture and pagan worship, where people commonly followed societal norms and spiritual forces that opposed God's ways. The Apostle Paul wrote this letter to the Ephesian Christians, who were mostly Gentiles, to highlight their former lives of sin and rebellion, influenced by Satan as the "prince of the power of the air." This verse fits into Paul's overall theme in Ephesians of contrasting the old life of disobedience with the new life found in Christ through grace.
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