principalities means those who have left their first estate?
ἀρχή archḗ, ar-khay'; from G756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank):—beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
STRONGS NT 746: ἀρχή
ἀρχή, ἀρχῆς, ἡ (from Homer down), in the Sept. mostly equivalent to רֹאשׁ, רֵאֹשִׁית, תְּחִלָּה;
1. beginning, origin;
a. used absolutely, of the beginning of all things: ἐν ἀρχή,
John 1:1f (
Genesis 1:1); ἀπ' ἀρχῆς,
Matthew 19:4 (with which cf. Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 5 ὁ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ποιῶν ἀνθρώπους),
Matthew 19:8;
John 8:44;
1 John 1:1;
1 John 2:13;
1 John 3:8; more fully ἀπ' ἀρχῆς κτίσεως or κόσμου,
Matthew 24:21;
Mark 10:6;
Mark 13:19;
2 Thessalonians 2:13 (where L (Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading) ἀπαρχήν, which see);
2 Peter 3:4; κατ' ἀρχάς,
Hebrews 1:10 (Psalm
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Jude 6 King James Version (KJV)
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
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2Co 5:2 - Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,
Jde 1:6 - And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
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