Sentences with phrase «rebellion against that slavery»

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The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt.

In the call of Abraham to leave the home of his ancestors, in Moses» leading his people away from acquiescence in Egyptian slavery, in the prophetic protests against any localizing or naturalizing domestication of Yahweh's presence, in the apocalyptic rebellions against the status quo, in Jesus» idealizing of homelessness, in the Evangelists» turning our attention toward the Risen Lord and in St. Paul's relentless call to freedom from the slavery of legalism, we have a constant chorus of discontent at the idea that we can find our fulfillment in what nature apart from history has given us.

If there is another armed rebellion against «authority» (slavery enforcement), it will surely be against the church again.

Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low - paid white patrollers stand watch as slave «speculators» sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years.