An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Views of SlaveryPerkins & Purves, 1846 - 384 pages |
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... Hebrews in Egypt and slavery now II . Whether the interposition of God , in that case , was such as to make it proper ... Hebrew Servitude in the time of the Prophets 1. The inquiry in regard to the condition of the native in- habitants ...
... Hebrews in Egypt and slavery now II . Whether the interposition of God , in that case , was such as to make it proper ... Hebrew Servitude in the time of the Prophets 1. The inquiry in regard to the condition of the native in- habitants ...
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... Hebrews made no such minute distinctions as the Greeks did . Their language was less cultivated , and much less ... Hebrew Scriptures some hundreds of times in various forms of the word , and is never rendered slaves , but commonly ...
... Hebrews made no such minute distinctions as the Greeks did . Their language was less cultivated , and much less ... Hebrew Scriptures some hundreds of times in various forms of the word , and is never rendered slaves , but commonly ...
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... Hebrews did not make distinctions between the various kinds of service with the accuracy of the Greeks . So far as I have been able to ascertain , they made no distinc- tions of that kind , except ... Hebrew language , 68 AN INQUIRY INTO THE.
... Hebrews did not make distinctions between the various kinds of service with the accuracy of the Greeks . So far as I have been able to ascertain , they made no distinc- tions of that kind , except ... Hebrew language , 68 AN INQUIRY INTO THE.
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Albert Barnes. There were , indeed , in the Hebrew language , two words which denoted exclusively female domestics or ... Hebrew word . ( 2. ) That at any period of their history the word denoted servitude as it then existed , and its ...
Albert Barnes. There were , indeed , in the Hebrew language , two words which denoted exclusively female domestics or ... Hebrew word . ( 2. ) That at any period of their history the word denoted servitude as it then existed , and its ...
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... Hebrews would not have been under a neces- sity of forming a new word to denote that relation , but the term in actual use would have covered the whole ground , and would easily adapt itself to the actual state of things . But ( 4. ) it ...
... Hebrews would not have been under a neces- sity of forming a new word to denote that relation , but the term in actual use would have covered the whole ground , and would easily adapt itself to the actual state of things . But ( 4. ) it ...
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Page 228 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 267 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Page 267 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Page 148 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 324 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord ? 17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Page 278 - In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Page 329 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Page 89 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 353 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 127 - He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised : and my covenant shall be in your flesh, for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people : he hath broken my covenant.