Slaves
And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and
wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and
sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men....
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Jer. 2:14 (A.V.), but not there found in the original. In
Rev.
18:13 the word "slaves" is the rendering of a Greek
word meaning
"bodies." The Hebrew and Greek words for slave are
usually
rendered simply "servant," "bondman," or
"bondservant." Slavery
as it existed under the Mosaic law has no modern
parallel. That
law did not originate but...
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slav, slav'-er-i:
1. Acquiring of Slaves
2. Hebrews as War Captives
3. Freedom of Slaves
4. Rights of Slaves
5. Rights of Slave Masters
6. The New Testament Conception
LITERATURE
The origin of the term "slave" is traced to the German
sklave, meaning a captive of the Slavonic race who had been
forced into servitude (compare Slav); French esclave,...
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Hired service was little known anciently; slavery was the
common form of service. But among the Hebrew the bond
service was of a mild and equitable character; so much so
that ebed, "servant," is not restricted to the bond servant,
but applies to higher relations, as, e.,g., the king's prime
minister, a rich man's steward, as Eliezer (Genesis 1...
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The institution of slavery was recognized, though not
established, by the Mosaic law with a view to mitigate its
hardship and to secure to every man his ordinary rights. I.
Hebrew slaves. --
1. The circumstances under which a Hebrew might be
reduced to servitude were-- (1) poverty; (2) the commission
of theft; and (3) the exercise of paternal...
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Attitude of the Apostles toward slavery in the Roman Empire. They did not attempt to do away with the terrible evil immediately. This would have been a hopeless task, and such an attempt would have been doubtless crushed by the iron hand of Rome. Rather, they were satisfied to give forth Christian principles, and so preach the gospel of liberation ...
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The Roman law and the slave. Under the Roman law the slave did not have the rights or protection such as he enjoyed under the Hebrew legislation. A master might have his slave crucified for almost any reason. Augustus Caesar had thirty thousand slaves crucified during his reign.
A slave who stole might be branded by his master on the face with the ...
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SLAVERY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Character and extent of slavery. In the first century human life was indeed cheap, for it has been estimated that a half of the total population of the empire, or about sixty million people, were slaves. Some wealthy Romans possessed as many as twenty thousand slaves. Slave owners became very brutal, and the slaves them...
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When Jerusalem was destroyed, the Babylonians carried away to Babylon many Hebrews to become their slaves in this foreign capital (II Chronicles 36:20). [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]...
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At a later date, the Syrian merchants came into camp in order to secure Jewish slaves. (l Maccabees 3:41 in the Apocrypha). [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]...
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