upon us-penetrating the deep recesses of our hearts
and all the secret springs of our conduct, and that
to Him we must give an account on the great day of
retribution.
  What are the divine injunctions bearing upon this
subject, as they came from the lips of the Great
Messiah, and from the pens of His inspired apostles
When the chief priests and scribes, to tempt the
Messiah, asked him if it were lawful to pay tribute
to Ciwsar, He called for a penny: "Whose image
and superscription hath it" saith He. They an-
swer, "Cesar's."  And He said to them, "render
therefore unto aauar the things that are Ciesar's, and
unto God the things which are God's."-Luke xx:
19-20.
  Here Jesus enjoins upon the Jews not only the
payment of tribute to Caesar, but the faithful discharge
of every duty which they owed to Coesar and to God.
He enjoins upon them loyalty in its highest and most
comprehensive sense-making their obligation to
obey the laws and edicts of Caesar absolute and im-
perative, save and except (by implication), in those
cases in which the commands of Caesar might be in
contravention to the laws of God; in which cases it
was their duty to obey God rather than man, and to
take the consequences; but in no instance does He
license them to raise their arms to resist or to strike
down the government of Caesar.
  Judea had been conquered by the Roman arms,



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