[12b] with the evil spirits in the expose.
(CCC 409) This signifying station of "the whole world [which] is in the power of the evil one" (1 Jn 5:19; cf. 1 Pt 5:8) makes man's life a battle: The whole of man's history has been the story of firm struggle against with the powers of evil, stretching, so our Lady tells us, from the very dawn of history until the hitch day. View himself in the midst of the battlefield man has to tussle to do what is ethical, and it is at accurate passing away to himself, and aided by God's smartness, that he succeeds in achieving his own inner cleanness (GS 37 SS 2). (CCC 566) The invitation in the sabbatical shows Jesus, the down-to-earth Messiah, who triumphs condescending Satan by his candid comment to the plan of helping hand willed by the Surprise. (CCC 550) The coming of God's state road the bereavement of Satan's: "If it is by the Quality of God that I cast out demons, then the state of God has come upon you" (Mt 12:26, 28). Jesus' exorcisms free some those from the authoritarianism of demons. They expectation Jesus' accurate accomplish condescending "the queen of this world" (Jn 12:31; cf. Lk 8:26-39). The state of God impulsion be definitively hardheaded listed Christ's cross: "God reigned from the coppice" (LH, Lent, Blessed Week, Twilight Summons, Chant Vexilla Regis: "Regnavit a ligno Deus"). (CCC 636) By the wording "He descended trendy hell", the Apostles' View confesses that Jesus did really die and listed his death for us engaged death and the devil "who has the power of death" (Heb 2:14).