Desde junio de 1929 The Watch Tower enseñó que los 'higher powers' o 'superior authorities' de Romanos 13:1 eran 'primarily the Most High God and his reigning Son Jesus Christ', y no los gobernantes seculares.

The Watchtower, “Subjection to the Higher Powers”

15 de noviembre de 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'.

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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.

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

1 de junio de 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.

No online copy located.