“Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil.”
Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 73
Context: Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.
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David Lipscomb 5
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