Satanic ruler as defined in the Vines Complete Expository Dictionary

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kosmokrator (κοσμοκράτωρ, 2888) denotes “a ruler of this world” (contrast pantokrator, “almighty”). In Greek literature, in Orphic hymns, etc., and in rabbinic writings, it signifies a “ruler” of the whole world, a world lord. In the NT it is used in Eph. 6:12, “the world rulers (of this darkness),” rv, kjv, “the rulers (of the darkness) of this world.” The context (“not against flesh and blood”) shows that not earthly potentates are indicated, but spirit powers, who, under the permissive will of God, and in consequence of human sin, exercise satanic and therefore antagonistic authority over the world in its present condition of spiritual darkness and alienation from God. The suggested rendering “the rulers of this dark world” is ambiguous and not phraseologically requisite. Cf. John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; 2 Cor. 4:4.¶

W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996), 540.

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