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255* which allows them to do every injustice, to oppress the people of God, everything shall be measured, every iniquity contrary to brotherly love.

In oppressing a peasant they defile the pains of Christ. All this shall be counted and measured by God. Today authority is a sweet affair to the king opulent with fat and licentious in living to whom the word "peasant" is repugnant. But woe unto him when he shall meet the words of God face to face then his violences shall be met with great discomforts to his well-being, and he shall cry himself blind, "Alas! Woe is me! Why has my mother ever begotten me into this world!"

When Paul commanded the Christians in Rome to pay taxes to Nero he did not contemplate to introduce among them and sanction the Neronian right to oppress, and to live off the fat of the land. (:When this authority was, in the end, brought into Christendom, Christianity has become paganized.:)

1-Samuel 8:5,.

1-Sam. 8: 7–20,.

Micah 3: 1–4,.