wrath” deprived of God’s divine life because our first parents lost it and therefore had nothing to give to us. Instead of entering life as sons and daughters of God, we are born as mere servants in need of redemption and divine adoption. This initiates a pattern of life that’s contrary to God’s will and calls down his judgment. Moreover, we are, apart from grace, in the thrall of the “prince of the power of the air”, that is, the demonic spirits or fallen angels dominated by Satan which Jewish cosmology