Swordless


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Sword´less


a. 1. Destitute of a sword.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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When I came home for my brother's sword, I found no body at home to deliver me his sword, and so I thought my brother Sir Kay should not go swordless, and so I came hither eagerly and pulled it out of the stone without any pain.'
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(68) At this point Locke departed from the Reformers, extending the principle of the swordless church to a civil government that could not use the sword on behalf of the church.
Specious delusions: John Locke, knowledge and religious toleration
Loewen experienced the same struggle in his own life, embarking on a pilgrimage from ethnic Mennonitism to North American soul-winning evangelicalism to a discovery of an Anabaptist vision (i.e., a life of discipleship that takes seriously Menno Simon's "swordless lifestyle") (p.
The legacy of Jacob A. Loewen

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