Here is Melanchthon on Romans 13 from the Dispositio orationis in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos with the next two paragraphs added. Translation Romans 13 Proposition: “Let everyone be subject to his own magistracy.”((The word magistratus can mean both “magistracy” (the...
Philip Melanchthon
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (5)
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Melanchthon on Romans 13 (4)
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Melanchthon on Romans 13 (3)
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