ACC ~ 1 Peter 2 v13a

RESPECT FOR HUMAN INSTITUTIONS. TERTULLIAN: Pray for kings, because when the kingdom is shaken, all its other members are shaken with it, and even if we stay aloof from tumults we shall have some part in the resulting misfortune. APOLOGY 1.31.

BEHAVIOR TOWARD THOSE IN POWER. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: The proclaimers of the truth take all opportunity for wrongdoing away from us by describing how we should behave toward those who are in power in such a way that the gospel and its teaching will not be hindered by us through our unwillingness to do what they require of us and by telling us to be subject to them when it is clear that they are doing something in accordance with just laws. Nor should we be worried if they do not act in the way appointed by God, because he is in charge of them and will judge them accordingly. COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

NO OBEDIENCE IF IT IS AGAINST GOD’S WILL. ANDREAS: By “every human authority” Peter means those which have been ordained by rulers. We are called to submit to them for the Lord’s sake, because he himself said: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,”but if they command something which is not God’s will we must not obey them. CATENA.

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