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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
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I suspect you're being somewhat coy here, Jeffrey.
Technically, in an ultra-fundamentalist interpretation of
Romans 13 - Yes, he did resist "the powers that be." That's why we esteem his memory so highly.
Romans 13, is something of an ellipses - a figure of speech that is a bit less than complete, though the ellipses is really a couple of paragraphs rather than a simple sentence.
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El-lips'-is; or, Omission When a gap is purposely left in a sentence through the omission of some word or words.
* From the Companion Study Bible, E. W. Bullinger
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When reading his works, keep in mind that, like all great grammarians, Bullinger would occasionally descend into a baffling eccentricity at times.
Romans 13, doesn't come right out and say that there are exceptions to the rule being stated. It omits this detail as a deliberate part of the rhetoric. However,
Romans 13:3-4, cannot be ignored when it describes the purpose of government - to be a "terror to the evil doer..."
When a government itself becomes the "evil doer," then it is incumbent upon the people to resist and to seek to overthrow the evil and replace it with good government.