{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3852","native_reference":{"book_number":520,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Martyrdom of Polycarp</p><p>\" But Polycarp said, \"To thee I have thought it right to offer an account [of my faith]; for we are taught to give all due honour (which entails no injury upon ourselves) to the powers and authorities which are ordained of God.[28]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>For this cause pay ye tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.\"[587]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V</p><p>Paul the apostle also says upon this same subject: \"Be ye subject to all the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: now those which are have been ordained of God.\"[209]</p><p>Tertullian On Idolatry</p><p>Therefore, as to what relates to the honours due to kings or emperors, we have a prescript sufficient, that it behoves us to be in all obedience, according to the apostle's precept,[120]</p><p>Tertullian Scorpiace</p><p>No doubt the apostle admonishes the Romans[106]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book VIII</p><p>For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God.\"[119]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book IV</p><p>Render all the fear that is due to them, all offerings, all customs, all honour, gifts, and taxes.[34]</p>","source_html_sha256":"6c727d1835c4a83d4258ff171433efa9f6aca0bd61dbc2c130b6ee95939d4a2d","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3852,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"9927f22231fbe93d0b928baf2147506c7a31c0ccb3b0a870c02fba8127472632","translator":null,"work":null}