Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
AD 550
From this, therefore, he commanded me to desist, thinking, doubtless, that if I myself should recant, the others would also follow me in that. But I answered him neither unreasonably nor in many words, "We must obey God rather than men."