Genesis 1:26-28 New King James Version (NKJV) “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1 Thessalonians 4:11- 12 (NKJV) “…that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.”
Proverbs 22:29 (NKJV) “Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.”
From the 1828:
Dominion: definitions 1-5 DOMIN´ION, n. [L. dominium. See Dominant.]
- Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling.
The dominion of the Most High is an everlasting dominion. Dan. 4. - Power to direct, control, use and dispose of at pleasure; right of possession and use without being accountable; as the private dominion of individuals. Locke.
Domination: Definitions 1-3 DOMINA´TION, n. [L. dominatio.] The exercise of power in ruling; dominion; government. Shak.
- Arbitrary authority; tyranny.
Does man have a tendency to abdicate or usurp responsibility?
From 1828:
AB´DICATE, v. t. [L. abdico; ab and dico, to dedicate, to bestow, but the literal primary sense of dico is to send or thrust.]
- In a general sense, to relinquish, renounce, or abandon. Forster.
- To abandon an office or trust, without a formal resignation to those who conferred it, or without their consent; also to abandon a throne, without a formal surrender of the crown. Case of King James, Blackstone.
- To relinquish an office before the expiration of the time of service. Case of Diocletian, Gibbon; also Case of Paul III. Coxe’s Russ.
- To reject; to renounce; to abandon as a right.
ƯSURP´, v. t. s as z. [Fr. usurper; L. usurpo.]
To seize and hold in possession by force or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power. To usurp the right of a patron, is to oust or dispossess him.
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