2:2), “the prince of the power of the air”; and, because he ruleth in the darkness of this world (John 16:11), “the prince of this world”; and in consequence hereunto, they who are under his dominion, in opposition to the faithful (who are the “children of the light”), are called the “children of darkness.” For seeing Beelzebub is prince of phantasms, inhabitants of his dominion of air and darkness, the children of darkness, and these demons, phantasms, or spirits of illusion, signify allegorically the same thing. This considered, the kingdom of darkness, as it is set forth in these and other places of the Scripture, is nothing else but a “confederacy of deceivers, that to obtain dominion over men in this present world endeavour by dark and erroneous doctrines to extinguish in them the light both of Nature and of the Gospel, and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come.”