“Carter noted this First Peter passage: “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority...”
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2 Cor 11:
32In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me; 33but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.
Looks like Paul didn’t submit himself to the governor of Damascus, under Arteas the king.
“Looks like Paul didn’t submit himself to the governor of Damascus, under Arteas the king.”
Excellent point. And he was not too keen on turning the other cheek.
Acts 23:3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”