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Calvin on Psalm 72: remove legal protections and the powerful will exploit the weak—even their poor brethren. The king’s role is defender of those who can only be safe under the magistrate’s protection, avenger of the poor against injustice. Nobody objects to this in principle. The difficulty is that we have elevated our own inconveniences to the level of oppression, and genuinely cannot hear the cry of our poor brethren—because we have none