He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it
This is the strongest of paradoxical statements.
As Jesus is being ridiculed and humiliated by cruel and publicly execution
God is actually defeating the powers that put him on the cross.
God is actually defeating the power of death itself.
God is actually bringing triumph in helplessness and glory in shame.
What the powers of this world call their ultimate victory (the rejection and execution of God’s Son)
are in reality the ultimate defeat of those powers, both for God in Christ and for you and me.