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À partir de juin 1929, La Tour de Garde a enseigné que les 'puissances supérieures' ou 'autorités supérieures' de Romains 13:1 étaient 'primarily the Most High God and his reigning Son Jesus Christ', et non les dirigeants séculiers.

Claim ID claim-doctrine-superior-authorities-1929-jehovah-christConcerns 1 juin 1929Déclaration explicite

L’affirmation et ses preuves

Déclaration explicite · 1 juin 1929 Vérifié

À partir de juin 1929, La Tour de Garde a enseigné que les 'puissances supérieures' ou 'autorités supérieures' de Romains 13:1 étaient 'primarily the Most High God and his reigning Son Jesus Christ', et non les dirigeants séculiers. Source: The Watchtower, 15 novembre 1950Source: God's Kingdom Rules! (2014), 2014Source: The Watch Tower, 1 juin 1929 (unverified)

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : God’s Kingdom Rules! (2014), p. 56 : 'Beginning in 1929, however, our publications had also reasoned that the superior authorities of Romans 13:1 were not the secular rulers at all, but Jehovah and Jesus.'

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

The Watchtower, “Subjection to the Higher Powers”

15 novembre 1950 · pp.439-448 · p. 441 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“The conclusions arrived at were published in the June 1 and 15, 1929, issues of The Watchtower in the article, in two parts, entitled “The Higher Powers”. … Romans 13:1-7 has since 1929 been taken by Jehovah's witnesses to be instructions on rendering to God what belongs to God. Why? Because the expression “the higher powers” is now understood to mean primarily the Most High God and his reigning Son Jesus Christ.”

Restates and defends the 1929 interpretation; also says 'Up till 1928 they, too, had held to the ecclesiastical interpretation of Romans 13:1-7'.

Note de provenance et de vérification for The Watchtower, Subjection to the Higher Powers

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording confirmed; page 441 from page markers (some summaries give pp. 439-440).

Corroboré par. src-kr-2014-ch5-superior-authorities

Notes. Serves as primary evidence of the 1929-1962 teaching in lieu of the unopened 1929 issues.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-w-1950-1115-subjection-higher-powers

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

God's Kingdom Rules! (2014), “Chapter 5 — The King Shines Light on the Kingdom”

2014 · pp.49-57 · par. 23 (p. 56); par. 24 (p. 57) · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Beginning in 1929, however, our publications had also reasoned that the superior authorities of Romans 13:1 were not the secular rulers at all, but Jehovah and Jesus. … The holy spirit guided Christ's followers to just such a view in 1962, when landmark articles on Romans 13:1-7 were published in the November 15 and December 1 issues of The Watchtower.”

The organisation's own history of the 1929 and 1962 positions.

Note de provenance et de vérification for God's Kingdom Rules! (2014), Chapter 5 — The King Shines Light on the Kingdom

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording and pages confirmed.

Corroboré par. src-w-1950-1115-subjection-higher-powers, src-w-1962-1115-subjection-superior-authorities

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-kr-2014-ch5-superior-authorities

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Non vérifié

The Watch Tower, “The Higher Powers (parts 1 and 2)”

1 juin 1929 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

The two-part 1929 article (1 and 15 June) that identified the 'higher powers' of Romans 13 as Jehovah and Christ.

Note de provenance et de vérification for The Watch Tower, The Higher Powers (parts 1 and 2)

Note sur la fiabilité. Original not opened: no lawful scan found (archive.org items 'rihswatchtower1929' and 'Watchtower19291930' are US school/college publications, not Watch Tower Society material). The existence, date and thrust of the article are confirmed by w50 11/15 p. 441 and kr p. 56.

Corroboré par. src-w-1950-1115-subjection-higher-powers, src-kr-2014-ch5-superior-authorities

Notes. Do not quote 1929 wording directly until a scan is opened.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-w-1929-0601-higher-powers

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