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210* ordinated. But had this people been living in the Promised Lami, like the sons of Israels in their days of freedom, when they head no secular lord with authority over them, Saint Paul would never have written that they ought to do good and to eschew evil in the fear of the sword. ror they had too good a rule given them by the apostles, amd had no need to be prodded to goodness by the authority of the sword. (:Paul certainly did not act contrary to the feelings of Samuel who regretted that the Jews preferred a king to freedom under God. He simply urged them to show Christian submission to their rulers, and to suffer their injustice with CHristlikeChristlike [sic] patience.:) The non-Christians, fearing the retribution ot the sword, do not transgress the laws of their king. :(In this way the kings are serving God:) for they preserve from annihilation the fallen generation (:keeping it for God's own time.:) God alone knows why he wants to have this generation saved and maintained by paganism.

Rom. 13:4,.

Rom. 8: 15–17,.

1-Sam. 8; cf. chaps XXVII, pp.132*ff.

1-Sam. 8; cf. chaps XXVII, pp.132*ff.