1 Пет. 2:9; Martin Luther, «On the Babylonish Captivity of the Church» в: Henry Wace, ed., First Principles of the Reformation, or the Ninety-Five Theses and Three Primary Works of Dr. Martin Luther (London: John Murrey, 1883), с. 235; Martin Malia, History’s Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), с. 81; Ernst Troeltsch, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches (New York: Macmillan, 1931), т. 1, с. 331–343.