Sentences with phrase «over the slave»

God restricts the masters power over the slave, makes the slave a member of the household, give rest on the Sabbath, gave them asylum and ways to earn freedom.

But the Jews were required every day to have dealings with the Romans, who treated them as a conquered people and managed them as a master over 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.

Strangely when this was done it was the slave owners who were entitled to compensation, apparently for the loss of their rights over slaves.

The Roman law expert Gaius wrote that it was universally accepted that the master possessed the power of life and death over his slave (Institutes, 1:52).

The current gun congtroversy was devised to cause a total gun ban, making it safe for christendom if and when it regained it's political control over the slaves but the opposite has happened, making it physically impossible for that kind of political control to ever be regained.

Tony Blair rejected several calls for an apology as prime minister, choosing instead to express his «deep sorrow» over the slave trade.

«Surveillance is nothing new to black folks,» she said, referring to laws intended to keep close watch over slaves in 18th - century America.

25:46), The Bible restricted the master's power over the slave.