Herman Hoppe just clarified what Paul was talking about in Romans 13. That instead of blindly condemning an occupying armed force that enforces restrains the worst “fellows of the baser sort” (a phrase in Acts about false witnesses against Christians).
Paul used the Roman sword for protection against an enraged Jewish mob in Jerusalem, invoking his right to appeal to Caesar as a Roman citizen.
But remember also, in another epistle, he warned Christians away from trusting in the secular authority.
Like it says in Isaiah, learning is “precept upon precept, line upon line”.
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