There is more than mere strength, there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to every blow which he deals upon his enemies. God assoilzie him of the sin of bloodshed!—it is fearful, yet magnificent, to behold how the arm and heart of one man can triumph over hundreds.

The reformulation of the problematic of political theology in the form of stasiology is significant, for it points to the severing of the political from the question of the state, or the loss of the state's monopoly on the political.

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