Casting Down Strongholds

For our wrestling match is not against persons with bodies. Now that phrase is taken from the Living Bible, and I think it’s a very good phrase. We are in a wrestling match, but we’re wrestling persons who don’t have bodies. Well, that immediately causes us to adjust our thinking because we’re not used to the concept of persons without bodies, although there are multitudes of such persons in the universe.

Then he says, in the Prince version, against rulers with various areas and descending orders of authority. So, it’s a very highly organized kingdom. There are rulers in this kingdom, each with a particular area of responsibility, and under each of those rulers, there are sub-rulers who are responsible for sub-areas in that kingdom.