Satan as "the god of this world" in light of the Parallels between Acts 26:17-28; 26:13 and 2 Corinthians 4:4

  

Acts 26:17-28, 26:13	2 Corinthians 4:4, 6
26:17-18: “I am seeing you, to open their eyes so that they may turn form darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God.” 26:13: “At midday . . . I saw on the way a light form heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me” (cf. Acts 22:9)	4:4: “in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 4:6: “God, who said, “’Light shall sine out of darkness,’ is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”

 

Note: Lexical and cognate parallels in Greek are indicated by solid underlining, and close conceptual parallels by broken underlining.

 

Source: G. K. Beale, Union with the Resurrected Christ: Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2023), 277