{"id":3146,"date":"2023-08-02T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2023-09-14T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T01:47:32","slug":"offices-of-princes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2023\/08\/02\/offices-of-princes\/","title":{"rendered":"Offices of Princes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe offices of princes and officials are divine and right, but those who are in them and use them are usually of the devil. And if a prince is a rare dish in heaven, this is even more true of the officials and the court personnel. This is caused by the devil, depraved nature, which cannot stand success; that is, it cannot use honor, power, and authority in a divine way. No matter how insignificant the little office may be, they take a foot though they do not have an inch, and always want to be God themselves when they ought to be God\u2019s maid.\u201d*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2016\/07\/Martin-Luther-Cranach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1436\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2016\/07\/Martin-Luther-Cranach-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2016\/07\/Martin-Luther-Cranach-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2016\/07\/Martin-Luther-Cranach.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Martin Luther, <em>Commentary on Psalm<\/em>\u00a0101:5b, Luther&#8217;s Works vol. 13, p. 212<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe offices of princes and officials are divine and right, but those who are in them and use them are usually of the devil. And if a prince is a rare dish in heaven, this is even more true of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2023\/08\/02\/offices-of-princes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,55,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-martin-luther-history","category-politics","category-reformation","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}