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(:When the authorities commit Such perversions and sins, the Christian is not obligated to obey them, and this because of the following Biblical examples:)

1) The three young men did not resist the royal authority of King Nebuchadnezzar sinfully; on the contrary, they were saved by God in the trial of the fiery furnace.

2) Mordecai did not sin by refusing to do obeisance to Haman. He obeyed God rather than men.

3) The Jews who resisted the order of King Antiochus Epiphanes to bow down before Greek gods and who were murdered for their obstinacy, did not sin. Dan. 3.

Esther 3: 1–6ff.

Macc. 6. (2nd Book). 193*