You're Reading Romans 13 Wrong! Here's How to Read It Correctly
Galatians 5:12 shows us that Paul is being both rational and angry. It is possible to be both. Paul has not lost his temper, as harsh as his call for the heretics to castrate themselves is. (And let’s not say it just sounds harsh. It is harsh.)
Jared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
Only an understanding of the angareia- system can make fully intelligible one of the sayings of Jesus in the so-called Sermon on the Mount: ‘Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain' (Mt. V.4I). Again, the word ‘compel’ in this text represents the technical term angateuein. (The passage deserves more notice than it usually... See more
Class Struggle In the Ancient Greek World : G.M.E de Ste Croix : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
What if the state ceases to be God’s ministry of justice? What if it becomes a terror to good works, rather than to the evil? (Rom. 13:1–5). Their obedience had to be “for conscience sake” (Rom. 13:5), i.e., in obedience to God, because of His Word, for “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). As a result, Christians