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Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: these words are, either an argument to enforce the subjection enjoined in the former part of the foregoing verse; q. d. You may not resist; therefore, you must be subject: or else, they are an inference from the latter part of it; q.d. Seeing the civil power is of God, and of his ordination; therefore, it must not be resisted or opposed. To resist authority, is to wage war against God himself.
Damnation; the word properly signifieth judgment, and it is applied in Scripture, either to human and temporal punishment, as Luk_23:40 1Co_6:7 1Pe_4:17; or else to Divine and eternal punishment, as Luk_20:47 Heb_6:2 2Pe_2:3. Accordingly, it may be understood of eternal punishment, that the resister of authority shall receive from God; or of temporal punishment, that he shall receive from the magistrate.