Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. JESUS AND THE EVANGELISTS OR LOVE YOUR ENEMIES -- 3. POSITIVE SOURCES -- 4. THE SILENT SOURCES. FROM HIM COME THE KINGS AND THE RULERS AND THE GOVERNORS -- 5. DILEMMAS FOR THOSE WHO STRIVE FOR PERFECTION OR TO SERVE OR NOT TO SERVE? OR BREAK OFF THE TIES THAT BIND AND ENTANGLE YOU IN THIS WORLD -- 6. NEGATIVE SOURCES -- 7. COUNCILS OR THOSE WHO THROW AWAY THEIR ARMS IN TIMES OF PEACE SHOULD BE KEPT FROM COMMUNION -- 8. EPILOGUE -- 9. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10. APPENDIX A. OTHER POSSIBLE EPIGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE -- 11. APPENDIX B. A SELECTION OF THE SOURCES DISCUSSED -- INDEX