Jesus answered,
My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from here.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
If, in short, though conscious of His own kingdom.
war, nay, how will he serve even in peace, without a sword, which the Lord has taken away?