Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Therefore, as to what relates to the honours due to kings or emperors, we have a prescript sufficient, that it behoves us to be in all obedience, according to the apostle's precept.
But man is the property of God alone.