Word: resisteth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepherds & Executioners. Martin Luther's troublesome teaching on the relations between church & state is largely based on Paul's words in Romans 13: "For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil."* Civil authority, however evil or foolish, said Luther, must be opposed only when it encroaches on the spiritual realm: "And you must know that from the beginning...
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