The Slavery Question

CHAPTER X.

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SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

NEW TESTAMENT AND SLAVERY--SERVANTS mentioned but not SLAVES--DOULOS does not mean SLAVE--New Testament does not regulate slavery because it cannot be regulated--Slaveholders not addressed by the Apostles--Onesimus not a slave--Character of Roman slavery--Contrary to the fundamental principles of revealed religion--The character of God--Common origin of man--General Redemption--Moral precepts--And is necessarily unjust and unequal page 124