Sentences with phrase «slaves when»

It's true that we become slaves when we owe.

Humans become slaves when energy is denied them, as the green movement is so effectively doing through the world.

People sold themselves as slaves when they could not pay their debts or provide for their families.

For example, a Jesuit, Pedro Claver (1581 - 1654), for four decades ministered physically and spiritually to the Negro slaves when they arrived in Cartagena, and made long journeys into the interior to visit the blacks in the mines and on the plantations.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

The Israelites did not have many slaves when they left Egypt as they themselves were slaves.

He didn't have the authority to release his slaves when he had creditors who would hound him if he had.

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

Were you a slave when called?

Even the slave can remain as he is though he need not; «Were you a slave when called, never mind, but if you can attain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.

A revealing incident, frequently cited in the study of Hebrew slavery, is that of Saul's consultation with his slave when the two had been for several days searching for lost asses; and it was the slave, not Saul, who had money in his possession to pay a fee to the «man of God.»

Cinema has long given us the image of the submissive and powerless slave when the truth is that there was a constant effort to suppress such uprisings with violent, unimaginable consequences including castrations, cutting off limbs, killing family members.

I'm not so certain, with the setting of the Civil War, that a woman would have been treated all that much more fairly than a slave when it came to shooting a white man.

Not exact matches

«When the war is over, the soldiers, they become like slaves,» he says in his even, unemotional tone.

We've all been a slave to our habits before: like when you snap out of a daze and realize you've driven all the way home without remembering how you got there.

Commemorating when President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in the Capitol on April 16, 1862, Emancipation Day has been an official paid day off in D.C. since 2005, after a law declared it so.

When the Roman empire collapsed, even slaves feared what would happen next.

International Standard Version (© 2008) Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear, trembling, and sincerity, as when you obey the Messiah.

Peter lived in a time when Rome was in power, and to tell Christian slaves to obey their masters had absolutely nothing to do with him thinking it natural.

When were Jewish people ever in Africa as slaves?

If you think that is wrong then you are at direct odds with your god who condones slavery, a.k.a outlining when it's acceptable and not punishing people who do own slaves.

He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.»

ME II beat me to it, but it's unbelievable that you are trying to rationalize slavery, regardless the of «type» and this is why we view god as immoral while you still think god can be moral and outline when it's acceptable to own a slave.

God commanded the Chosen not to treat slaves harshly as they were treated (450 years) when slaves in Egypt.

So in the (not so distant) future look for him to do animal sacrifices in his yard, beat / kill his kids when they mouth off, torch his neighborhood when he realizes he lives next to people that don't believe as he does, own and beat his slaves, and we won't even discuss how he'll treat his wives.

The earliest records of the Jews came from when they were slaves in Greece.

I look forward to the day when «there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female...»

The earliest mention of Jews was when they were slaves in Greece.

When their father died, they divided the estate, consisting of five thousand coins, clothes, and slaves, and deliberated as to how they should deal with this wealth.

their is no way im going to be able to when an argument with some one determined on living a life of servitude so i just call you what you are a blind obedient slave.

36 The Lord will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.

when he sent the letter in Philemon... he told the slave owner to «love the slave as a brother» if again, one truly loves another... they would not enslave them

They asked who could question the Word of God when it said, «slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling» (Ephesians 6:5), or «tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect» (Titus 2:9).

Or when equal rights were granted to former slaves?

In fact, when Jefferson returned from his duties in France his slaves cheered his homecoming and welcomed him with open arms.

Moses had tried leadership before, jumping into the fray when he saw one of the Hebrew slaves being abused by an Egyptian overlord.

Jesus, invoking the words of Isaiah and sharing God's dreams for the world, announces the inauguration of a new Kingdom in which the Year of Jubilee — when debts are forgiven, slaves set free, land and its abundance shared — is celebrated perpetually.

Furthermore, in light of the bible's recognition of the morality of owning foreign born slaves as personal property (Lev 25:44 - 46), it seems a little odd that the alleged divine law giver failed to condemn this practice when even mere mortals would eventually come to recognize the practice as morally repugnant.

When I get to heaven goin'ta put on shoes and walk all over God's heaven») For the slave, it was a place like John the Revelator saw — a place where «night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign for ever and ever» (Rev. 22:5)

We fail to recognize that when Paul says we are all one in Christ — that there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free — he was not doing this in order to silence the marginalized.

When we left sin through faith in Christ we became his slaves and inherited eternal life.

While researching the spiritual songs of African - American slaves I was surprised to come upon a line that commanded: «When you get to heaven, rub poor lil» Judas's head.»

In the Scripture itself Allah defiantly stressed the impossibility of imitating the Qur» an when He said to the unbelievers, «And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witnesses beside Allah if ye are truthful.

Yes, the Apostle Paul spoke about how there is «neither male nor female, slave nor free, Jew nor Gentile» in the family of God, but he was also quick to acknowledge those same categories when he saw one group oppressing the other.

When, however, the same sin says, Be independent; don't be a slave of old codes; all the world loves a rebel; show the stuff you are made of by breaking free from cramping restrictions which keep your native instincts down; be a man!

When Paul urges slaves to serve their masters well, slavery is not thereby sanctified.

Exodus 21: 20 - 21 When a man strikes his slave or slave girl with a stick and the slave dies on the spot, he must be punished.

They took in abandoned children and raised them as their own; they treated women and slaves better than anyone else; they cared for the sick during plagues when no one else would.

Why is «wives submit to your husbands» considered by many Christian to be a timeless divine mandate, when in every New Testament occurrence, that phrase is either preceded or followed by instructions that «slaves obey your masters,» at least once with the phrase «in the same way» between them?!

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