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The second justification of war is also affixed to the words of Saint Paul who says:

(:Paul speaks of the civil authority; in his case it was personalized by Emperor Nero. :) And Paul admits that Nero with his sword is a servant of God, and an executioner of God's anger. (:Yet Nero used his sword even against Paul condemning him to death. The apostle committed no wrong and yet the Emperor killed him. And here come the Church's obedient apologists and say: "he did not kill, it was the law that killed.":) Accordingly, the soldiers do not take to their consciences their murders because their murdering is not killing but simply the exercise of the law, and so a service to God. The sanctity of the great saints is removing the (stigma) of a bad conscience from (killing) Rom. 13:4,.