Militaire dienst / oorlog
"Hij zal oordelen tussen de heidenvolken en veel volken vonnissen. En zij zullen hun zwaarden omsmeden tot ploegscharen en hun speren tot snoeimessen. Geen volk zal tegen een ander volk het zwaard opheffen. Oorlog voeren zullen zij niet meer leren." Jes. 2:4
"U hebt gehoord dat er gezegd is: Oog voor oog en tand voor tand. Ik zeg u echter dat u geen weerstand moet bieden aan de boze; maar wie u op de rechterwang slaat, keer hem ook de andere toe; en als iemand u voor het gerecht wil dagen en uw onderkleding nemen, geef hem dan ook het bovenkleed; en wie u zal dwingen één mijl te gaan, ga er twee met hem." Matt. 5:38-41
“Toen zei Jezus tegen hem: Doe uw zwaard terug op zijn plaats, want allen die naar het zwaard grijpen, zullen door het zwaard omkomen.” Matt. 26:52
Zie ook: Matt. 5:21,22 / Matt. 5:43,44 / Joh. 18:36 / 1 Kor. 10:3,4
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We who formerly murdered one another now refrain from making war even upon our enemies.
Justin Martyr (c. 160, E), ANF 1.176.
We used to be filled with war, mutual slaughter, and every kind of wickedness. However, now all of us have, throughout the whole earth, changed our warlike weapons. We have changed our swords into plowshares, and our spears into farming implements.
Justin Martyr (c. 160, E), ANF 1.254.
It is not in war, but in peace, that we are trained. Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), ANF 2.234.
If, then, we are commanded to love our enemies (as I have remarked above), whom have we to hate? If injured, we are forbidden to retaliate, lest we become just as bad ourselves. Who can suffer injury at our hands? Tertullian (c. 197, W), ANF 3.45.
Do we believe it is lawful for a human oath to be added on top of one that is divine? Is it lawful for a man to come under promise to another master after Christ? Is it lawful to renounce father, mother, and all nearest kinsfolk— whom even the Law has commanded us to honor and to love next to God Himself? . . . Shall a Christian apply the chain, the prison, the torture, and the punishment, when he is not the avenger even of his own wrongs? Shall he stand guard for others, more than for Christ? Shall he do it on the Lord’s Day, when he does not even do it for Christ Himself? Shall he stand guard before those temples that he has renounced? Shall he take a meal where the apostle has forbidden him? . . . You will see by a slight survey how many other offenses there are involved in the performances of camp offices. And we must hold them to involve a transgression of God’s law. Tertullian (c. 211, W), 3.99, 100.
Zie ook: GEWELDLOOSHEID en
Tatian (c. 160, E), 2.69.
Athenagoras (c. 175, E), 2.129.
Irenaeus (c. 180, E/W), 1.512.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.234.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.246.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.249.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.286.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.293.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.370.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.420.
Tertullian (c. 197, W), 3.45.
Tertullian (c. 197, W), 3.51.
Tertullian (c. 197, W), 3.80.
Tertullian (c. 197, W), 3.154.
Tertullian (c. 200, W), 3.73.
Tertullian (c. 207, W), 3.339, 340.
Tertullian (c. 211, W), 3.100.
Tertullian (c. 211, W), 3.101.
Tertullian (c. 212, W), 3.105.
Origen (c. 248, E), 4.444.
Origen (c. 248, E), 4.467.
Origen (c. 248, E), 4.467, 468.
Origen (c. 248, E), 4.533.
Origen (c. 248, E), 4.558.
Origen (c. 248, E), 4.617, 618, 621.
Origen (c. 248, E), 4.666, 667, 668.
Cyprian (c. 250, W), 5.277.
Cyprian (c. 250, W), 5.351.
Cyprian (c. 250, W), 5.488.
Lactantius (c. 304–313, W), 7.141.
Lactantius (c. 304– 313, W), 7.143.
Lactantius (c. 304–313, W), 7.153.
Lactantius (c. 304–313, W), 7.169.
Lactantius (c. 304–313, W), 7.185.
Lactantius (c. 304–313, W), 7.187.
Lactantius (c. 304–313, W), 7.271.
Arnobius (c. 305, E), 6.415.
Disputation of Archelaus and Manes (c. 320, E), 6.179.