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Old 07-02-2009, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by SolaScriptura View Post
If a FATHER is brutally abusing the son or daughter, does the MOTHER have the right - the duty, perhaps - to rise up and defend the child in defiance against her husband, the head of the house, the "greater ruler?" Both are rulers in the home, though the mother is the "lesser."
I think this is simply to say that the mother is dutifully obliged to protect life per the sixth commandment, and therefore this is a case of obeying God rather than man, for her husband's ordering her not to defend the children would be an order that she sin.

In other words, this seems to be an example where you ought to disobey if you are ordered to sin. But I don't know how this relates to the American Revolution.

-----Added 7/2/2009 at 12:07:55 EST-----

Good points, Randy.
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