Plato and Hegel believed that the State is divine.
There’s a lot of Platonists and Hegelians out there who don’t even know it.
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Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities which exist have been established by God...he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted
Romans, 13:1