Reference: Principality
Morish
The status of those who hold the first place, as rulers among men, Tit 3:1; but the word especially refers to the spiritual high powers in the unseen world, whether good or bad. They were created by the Lord, and He is head of them all. Col 1:16; 2:10. Some fell from the position of trust given them: they kept not their first estate or principality. Jude 1:6. Others contend against the heavenly position of the saints. Eph 6:12. The Lord 'spoiled' principalities on the cross, Col 2:15; and at His resurrection He was exalted by God far above all such created powers. Eph 1:21; 3:10.
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above every principality and authority and power and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this life but also in that to come,
that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly [worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God,
for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].
for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and for him,
and you are made perfect in him, who is the head of all principality and power,
[and] having subjugated principalities and powers, he made a public exhibition of them, leading them in triumph by it.
Admonish them to be subject to principalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work,
and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;
Smith
Principality.
In several passages of the New Testament the term "principalities and powers" appears to denote different orders of angels,good or bad. See
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for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].