Slavery, as Recognized in the Mosaic Civil Law, Recognized Also, and Allowed, in the Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Christian Church, Being One of a Series of Sabbath Evening Discourses on the Laws of Moses

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Rollo & Adam, 1865 - Slavery - 90 pages
 

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Page 58 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 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.
Page 6 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness...
Page 11 - And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Page 29 - And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her ; she shall be scourged ; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Page 1 - And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: but as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee...
Page 30 - Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. Shall I then take my bread and my water and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be?
Page 19 - And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon ; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia : to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Page 2 - 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 10 - And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house ; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Page 53 - Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints which are ' at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus : 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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