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203* the jails, the bilboes, the racks, for all these are the instruments of the servant of God. With them he does the will of God and a service to the Church. The Power of governing and of executing is the foundation of the wealth and selfsufficiency of the Church.

The apostles of the original Church of Christ were all bearing the weapons of executive and punitive authority on their necks, on their sides, and on their bodies, they were bathed in blood and condemned to death by the instruments of the executioner for the name of Christ; and now these same instruments are for the protection of the Church, used for the shedding of the blood of those who resist the Church and who criticize her arariciousness and simony through the truth of the gospel of Christ!

Acts 28:20.