Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves judgment.
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Fabian of Rome
AD 250
For his other actings, however, he is rather to be borne with by his flock and those put under him, than accused or made the subject of public detraction; because when any offence is committed in these matters by those put under them, His ordinance is withstood who set them before him, as the apostle says, "Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God."