"He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty." Religious and political authorities both fall before God's overwhelming force. Priests and mighty are paired as representatives of organized authority—both spiritual and secular. Their overthrow suggests that institutional religion and political order are not God's instruments but God's playthings, subject to reversal. This undermines the friends' reliance on traditional religious authority to validate their interpretations.

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