Sentences with phrase «from debt bondage»

Royal debt jubilees thus freed society from debt bondage, but did not liberate slaves.

Not exact matches

Most debts in early Mesopotamia were owed to the palace, so rulers basically were cancelling debts owed to themselves and their collectors when they proclaimed Clean Slates that saved their economies from widespread debt bondage that would have diverted labor to work for creditors at the expense of the palace.

There's a third word, aphiēmi which is the root for aphesis, and is sometimes translated forgive (like in first John 1:9), and yet it seems to be used more in the sense of cancellation of debt, than in the sense of release from bondage.

Many are bonded laborers, paying off the debts of their parents; they have been sold into bondage or kidnapped from low - caste parents....

A seven - year exploration of modern slavery — from forced labor to pay off debts to outright bondage — finds it inextricably interwoven with some of the worst environmental destruction on the planet.

I was in desperate need of a loan in other to be free from debt and financial bondage that was place on me by my ex husband.

It is possible, but difficult to escape from the bondage of debt once you start to slide down that slippery slope.

This is coming from someone who knows first hand what it means to be in debt bondage!