The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-05-14

servant, employed in reference to the
Patriarchnl and Jewish servants, do not
necessarily, nor even generally, denote
slaves" DR.. Junkius admits, "the
word ebcd, in itself, properly signifies a
'oorber, a Iaborer, person who does
work of any kind at all for another"
DR.. T. says, its signi6cation4n the He
brew scriptures is, n person who serves
another without respect to the length
of time for which, or the principle en-
which he renders service DR.. T. illus.
trates its various applications. It's
employed to denote q servant of God; il
is spoken of ones self, by way Of respect
toward superiors, to denote the subject
ofa King, Prince &C., in the sense of
military retainers-also courtiers, civil
and military officers. This word is ap-
piled to the Gibeonites, who were not
slaves, as is seen in Joshua, tx. ch, 23v.
These different applications are Illus.
trated by the quotation Of passages from
the Bible, which we have not space to
make. He quotes DR.. Bush as saying
! "to interpret it slave, or to argue from
the fact of words being used to desig
r nate domestic servants, that they were
: made servants, By force, worked without
IS pay, and held as an article ofprOperty,
J. would be a gross and gratuitous assump-
is tion," There was a distinction be-
l. tween the eJed aad the hired ser
i vaut sakin, who laborCd during period,
ID fixed, not by law, but by special cou-
it tract. He seems never to have enga-
ht ged for longer time than three years.
K The eJed was a servant of another class,
he but not therefore a slave, His term OF
y service "when that service was not the
US punishment Of theft"-was fixed by
ng law at six years. He might extend tho
as period of the service, ii he pleased, to
n the year of Jubilee. Instead of daily
u wages he receiveda sum agreed upon
at between his master and himself, at tho
"a beginning of his engagement. This
'e' was called "thO money of his purchase" ."
:, Finally, if he left at the end Of six years,
OF he was furnished liberally out of the
Ie, flock, tho floor, the wiuepress &c. Tho
is ebed might eat the Passover with his
rs m masters household for If he was Gen
's- tile, he must have been circumcised
ID, when be entered upon service. The
us ebed, and not the sGkiH, or hireling is
mentioned in the fourth command.
he meBt, which is addressed to the master
S, and head of family, who is TO prevent
lie. the violation ofthe Sabbath by any of
a its members. 1t does not follow from
n the language Of this command, that th o
u servants, any more than the childre :,
of we're like the cattle held as property by
p the father of the milyy---but only that
Is they we're under his control. In short
n, the eLed and ansGh among the Hebrews
'rs were very like the bound boy and girl
RS, among US. The argument from the
he language of the tenth commandment I
he may be disposed of in the same man .
mt ner. Does it follow from that Ian
lie guage that the wife and servants arc
MS property, in the same sense that his OK
We or his ass, or any thing that is our
ed neighbOr's is property which we are com
all manded not to covet2 This argument
ID. proves too much, therefore proves moth.
ial ing. The social condition, the treat
S. ment and the privileges ofthe patriarch
ra- al servants forbid the supposition that
n they were regarded as property, on a
er level in this respect, with the aocks and
he herds they attended. Abram on Ger :
he tain occasion armed his servants and
ch led them to battle, this be would never
mt have done, had they been slaves. These
ng three hundred and eighteen trained ones
or (servants) tho children of parents
to whom Abram had gotten" (bOHgh0 in
Haran we're not slaves
ms Abraham was not only the Father Of
OIL the Faithful but he was tbs 6rst mis-
or. sionary. Before he entered Canaan he
es had organized pious missien famlly,
By composed of hisOw converts, to be EN-.
3D.. ployed in keeping cattle with occasion,
re. al tillage in the extensive pasture
ii. ground Of that champaign country.
,ly The persons thus engaged became his
las servants. They became subject to him
lat as their ruler; they engaged to labor
he for him during specified term. The
Ia phrase "bought with money" says Or.
nd Carothers inhis "Life Of Abraham !"
a. designGtes servants whose wages were
int fixed sum of money. The Hebrew
sts word here translated buy, literally
N. means to gel or obtain. Instssd Of be-
sh ing slaves, they were Instructed ones,
Ia the sons Of his house. The wordtrans-
ate lated trained sinni6eS savs Dr n