Word: praepositorum
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...commentary on the Book of Job, insists that the ruler, whatever be his weight or fineness, must not only be supported, but reverenced as a limb of God. More, in his Regulae Pastoralis iii 4, he praises David's forbearance with Saul, and ordains that "admonendi sunt subditi, ne praepositorum suorum vitam temere judicent, si quid eos fortasse reprehensibiliter vident"; in hasty translation "subjects must be admonished not to judge rashly of the conduct of their rulers, even if they see them, by chance, acting reprehensibly." In Ambrosiaster's "Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti", XXXV, the ruler "Honorandusest...
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