“Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”
Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. — Antitassō (resist, set against) the exousia is implicitly antitassō God. This does not mean authorities are righteous or infallible—Paul acknowledges they bear the sword (v. 4)—but that resistance to legitimate authority is rebellion against God's order. The judgment (krima) is self-inflicted through the social consequences of resistance.
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