Crenshaw is also asserting a distinction between "public" and "private" moral ordering that is largely meaningless in a New Testament context.
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I don't think accepting the existence of state powers and the theoretical legitimacy of their authority - and the idea that CHRISTIANS would exercise that authority is impossibly remote to the NT - is the same as operating within anything like a modern public-private framework.
I am by no means saying Crenshaw has the only reasonable interpretation. But I can't say he doesn't have a reasonable interpretation either.