which was imagined in terms which were apparently related to those in Enoch. Paul hereby says: Jesus Christ, not these powers, rules the world! The Powers are nothing but impotent servants, instruments of His dominion! Yet we should see beyond this negative, polemic intent, which is but the obverse of a positive insight. Paul does not reject the Powers as pagan imaginings. Had his intent been purely polemic, this would have been the most effective. But though he does downgrade them because of Christ,