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| mai II said to resemble, because" s.he.
eth to bondage J" that is, brings forth chli,
dren who are slaves BY birth. The word
paidiske is applied to the maid.seryani.
of the high priest Mat. 26 =: 69-Mark ID
66, 69--Luke % 56-John 1S: II. It |"
applied to those who are beaten by fellow
slave, Luke l2: 45, "But and If that ser,
want say in his heart, My lord delayeth bis
coming; and shall begin to beat the men'
servants and maidens." The term is APP
piled to Rhoda, Acts IL: 13, and to tie
;sdaa,sel possessed with spirit OF divina-
ton" Acts 16: l6. In the New Testament
as in The AlexandriEe version, 1t every
where means bond-woman.
We have already noticed, that the Greek
language like the Hebre ~ has distinct terms
for slaves and hired servants. The latter
are usually designated by the word His!ho'
los. Mark /: 90, "They left their father
Zebedee in the ship with the hired'ssrpaats.
John 10: 10, l3, "He that is an hiref'ne.
and not the shepherd" The hreling heeth
because he is an hirelng." In the parable
of the prodigal son, it is miafhios. These
words, as was shown in my last letter, COR
respond precisely with the Hebrew sdk'r.
They are never interchanged with terms
which denote slaves. 1t is proper to obs
serve, that in some passages in our Iesta-
ment, where the word servant occurs, the
original writers used terms, which simply
mean attendants or waters, without inoi-
eating whether the persons mentioned were
hirelings or not For instance the servants
At the marriage in Cana, John 2: 5, g.
See also, Mat %; 13, and %: 1l-John
18: SO.
The master Of domestic slave is almost
always called, by the New Testament wr''
ters, kwios. We have seen that this term
is used by the Seventy in translating ddon.
It occurs many hundred times in the Greek
Testament. being very often applied TO
Christ. When so applied, it is generally
rendered Lord. 1t is also thus rendered
whenever il has the sense OF adon IN the
the plural of excellence, and refers to the
Divine Being. When applied to mere men,
it i, usually translated master, but some
times lord. A capital L distinguishes tho
Divine Lord from a human lord in our BIZ
Die, as the plural of excellence does in He
brew. Kurios is sometimes applied to
king for instance to the "king which would
take account of his servants" Mat. 1S: %.
27, 81, 80, "a. Sometimes it is used. IN
an address, as mere title of respect, and
is rendered ar. Its proper meaning, like
that of adon. is possessor or ruler. 1t y
applied to :he owners property. Mat. 70;
8, "The lord of the vineyard" When ap-
piled to the master of q slave II means both
ruler and possessor. The term Is never
used to denote the employer of hired ser-
want. The householder who hired laborers
into his vineyard, was "lord Of the yine-
yard," but not lord of the servants. II they
had been his slaves, then he would havs
been, like the master in the parable OF tho
talents "the lord of those servants" Mat.
25: 19.-In few cases, the master OF
slaves is called despoies. Tit 2:9, "E-
hort servants to be obedient to their own
masters" Tim. g.: /, 2-i Pet. 2: 49,
The exhortatations in these passages are
precisely similar to others in which kurios
Is used, as Col. 8: %, Servants obey in
all things your masters according TO the
flesh" Despoies is several times applied to
God, Luke .: @-Acts 4: 24-Jude 49,
heV. D . ~, Uut acftI W usc <iifhosSA VI
hireling.-It Is important to remark, that
there are some Greek words, rendered mas,
ter, which signify teacher; the master OF
disciple, and not OF q servant. Jam. 3: ].
"Be not many mastrrs." Mat. %: 10.
Neither be We called masters for one 10
your Master exen Christ" These texts
forbid the snwarrantable assumption of tbe
Office of rel; oxxea,s tes cher They have moth
ing to do with slavery, excepting so far Is
they condcma abotitionists for teaching that
slavery is SIN" doctrine which Christ
never taught
In my remaining letters, which will not
be more than seven or eight in number, 4
propose to consider a Ettle more particular
ly, those points of the Scripture view OF
slavery, which were presented to your no
tioe, in my second and third communities
tions. ~ i
Yours respectfully,
NovANGLys.