Sentences with phrase «authority over their slaves»

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

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The familial structure referenced in the household codes was that of pater familias [father of the family], which positioned the man as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

The structure of that world centered around the pater familias [father of the family] as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit — the household, which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

You don't have to be the most educated person in Laodicea to know that the Greek philosophers were rather insistent upon the importance of maintaining a household in which the man exercises unilateral authority over his wives, children, and slaves.

A man of noble birth, representing the power of Rome, endowed with authority over life and death, confronted by a barbarous colonial of no name or estate, a slave of the empire, beaten, robed in purple, crowned with thorns, insanely invoking an otherworldly kingdom and some esoteric truth, unaware of either his absurdity or his judge's eminence.

-- Then there is what Jesus commanded that his Leaders would Not have Authority over the Body of Christ, they would in fact be Slaves to the Body.

Central to the prevailing philosophy of the day was the idea that a free man ruled over his household as a sovereign, exercising unilateral authority over his subordinate wives, children, and slaves.

A slave mentality There will always be a struggle between priestly authority and prophetic challenge in institutionalized religion because institutions are intrinsically conservative and will always choose social stability over justice which works to the advantage of the socioeconomic / political power - elites whose interests are served by sustaining the status quo.

Marriage, as marriage, was instituted by God in Genesis 2:23 - 24, but the patriarchal family structure in which men had authority over wives and slaves, was a human institution.

slave will lose it's will and you will assume authority over «everything» including my soul and ability to resist... your cumboi...

The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or slaves (now chiefly arch.