Bondage: A Moral Institution Sanctioned by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and the Preaching and Practice of the Saviour and His Apostles (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Timothy, who was sent to visit them in the character of a missionary. The heart of the Apostle burned with a' holy zeal for that class of human beings. The first to appeal to the humanity of their masters for their temporal comfort, he wasnot the last to cherish the most compassionate regard for the1r eternal fe licity. Nor did he shrink from the duty of exposing the crimes of each. No circumstances, neither stripes, nor bonds, nor imprisonment, could deter him from declaring the whole counsel of God and exposing the moral errors of man wherever he discov ered them. What then but precepts of the purest morality could have been expected from him in a charge involving the eternal interests of the slave Let us analyze his words, that we may correctly as certain h1s view of their moral obligations to their masters. Let as many servants as are under the yoke: what Yoke? Surely it could not have been that of a hired servant, for the very introduction of the word in the sentence implies that there were two distinct classes of servants in Rome - one bond, and the. Other free - one under a yoke, and the other not - what then but the yoke of Bondage could the Apostle have meant?

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