Paul's Letter to the Romans. Affiliation with sovereign citizenship ideas causes a person to scrutinize tax, federal, state and local laws carefully to find flaws and loopholes. 13:6 For this reason (diaV tou`to gavr) you pay taxes, for (gavr) [those in authority] are God's servants who persist in this very thing. The reference in Matthew, John and James refer to wearing clothes (see also Josephus, Ant. . See idem, "Rom und die Christen imersten Jahrhundret," SAH (1942), 7. The Tübingen School: A Historical and Theological Investigation of the School of F. C. Baur. It means at least that the office of the government official, his leitourgia is from God. (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1902), 370. This would tend to further the idea that what we have in the last clause is support for those individuals mentioned as ejxousiva. There is no doubt that a sovereign God working out his purpose of salvation will use the state to those ends, but this is not made explicit here. See Morris, Romans, 461, n. 15. 13:2b oiJ deV ajnqesthkovte" eJautoi'" krivma lhvmyontai86 "and those who do so will receive judgment on themselves. Translated by John E. Alsup. A sovereign citizenâbecause he is sovereign, that is, he possesses supreme authorityâfeels justified in not obeying ⦠This theory on the psychology of obedience highlights our desire to avoid change. Paul: An Outline of His Theology. 33 (Toronto: Doubleday, 1993), 663, 64 for a list of commentators who reject the passage due to the lack of Christological emphases. The heavy emphasis in the passage on God's appointment of the state and its direct connection to qeou` would seem to weaken such a conclusion. Without entering into the rather great debate as to the purpose of the letter,34 we can see that there is a new defining line for the people of God—faith in Christ Jesus (3:21-24; 10:12).35 The Law, as it was so often used by the Jews to mark themselves out as God's people (cf. 37 Compare 1 Cor 15:45— and Genesis 2:7— .hY:j' vp,n
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