A History of Medival Political Theory in the West volume 1
A History of Medival Political Theory in the West volume 1
R W Robert Warrand Carlyle
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. . Quid oram chlamidis Saul. " Facta quippe enim per Saul, nisi mali rectores : prsepositorum oris gladio ferienda non quid per David, nisi boni subditi desig- sunt, etiam cum recte reprehendenda iu- nantur ! . . . Quern tamen David ferire dicantur. Si quando vero contra eos vel naetuit, quia pise subditorum mente in minimis lingua labitur, necesse est ut CHAP. XIII. ] THE SACRED AUTHORITY OF THE RULER. 153 phrase, it is well to observe that he recurs to the matter in his treatise on the Book ...of Job, 1 and restates the same view with an equal, perhaps even with slightly greater, emphasis. There can be no doubt that we have here the doctrine of the sanctity and Divine authority of the ruler in a very strong form : even the seventeenth-century apologists of the Divine Eight hardly go further in preaching the necessity of obedience and the wickedness of resistance. It is from the doctrine of St Gregory the Great that the religious theory of the absolute and irresponsible authority of the ruler continually drew its strongest arguments, both in the Middle Ages and later.
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