If children be there required to render obedience to their parents, the responsibility of fathers is also stated. While servants are instructed how to conduct themselves unto their masters, the latter are taught to treat their employees with due consideration and kindness. There too the balance is blessedly preserved. Power is not to be abused. Authority must not degenerate into tyranny.
Law is to be administered mercifully.
Rule is to be regulated by love. Christians are not to aspire after dominance but usefulness. Saints are likened unto sheep and not goats or wolves. Submitting yourselves one to another means mutually serving one another, seeking each other s well-being and advantage in all things. Sin chafes at any restraints, determined to have its own way.