“The enemies of Christ … could not bear his independence; his “Give the emperor that which is the emperor’s” showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics—for the moral order—that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.”

—  John Carroll

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 53

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