14, 15.] [Footnote 2: Mark xv.

43.] He declared that in the present world evil is the reigning power.
Satan is "the prince of this world,"[1] and everything obeys him.

The kings kill the prophets.

The priests and the doctors do not that which they command others to do; the righteous are persecuted, and the only portion of the good is weeping.

The "world" is in this manner the enemy of God and His saints:[2] but God will awaken and avenge His saints.