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NASB | Ruth 3:5 She said to her, "All that you say I will do." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ruth 3:5 Ruth answered her, "I will do everything that you say." |
Subject: How much authority do leaders have? |
Bible Note: The definition of authorities, in this context, would be those who are invested with the power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine, or judge. They can be individuals, but they can also be organizations. They are temporal. They can change throughout our lifetime. I would include in this list parents, husbands, elders, and governments. God frequently guides through such agencies. (For example, once, after exhibiting a high level of stress at work, an atheist boss of mine suggested I pray more frequently!) In the case of the lion, submitting to its authority by fleeing would simply be exercising God's command regarding the sanctity of life -- although this would probably be more of a manifestation of instinct, than of cerebration. |