Do the words “do not resist him who is evil” constitute an absolute, literal, unqualified prohibition against resisting any and all forms of evil? [Note: the word translated “evil” has the definite article, a reference most likely to “the evil deed” perpetrated against you.] In our introduction to the Sermon on the Mount I mentioned Martin Luther’s reference to the man who let lice nibble at him and refused to kill any of them, believing that this text prohibited him from resisting