A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery, from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham, to the Nineteenth Century: Addressed to the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter ...

John Henry Hopkins‏

جنوری 1864 · University of Michigan Library

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Excerpt from A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery: From the Days of the Patriarch Abraham, to the Nineteenth Century
The word slave occurs but twice in our English Bible, but the term servant, commonly employed by our trans lators, has the meaning of 'slave in the Hebrew and the Greek originals, as a general rule, where it stands alone. We read, however, in many places, of hired servants.
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