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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit." As though he had said, If ye are thought worthy of so great a benefit, as to have your masters for your brethren, on this account ye ought more especially to submit. ... And why does he thus command? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
It is not right that, because you have come to have your master as a brother by virtue of baptism, you should treat him carelessly; on the contrary, find in this very thing a motivation to serve and be subject to him with even greater zeal, because he too is faithful and beloved, that is, a brother instead of a master. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But what of those who have believing masters? But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them; which sometimes happens when familiarity is shown to underlings, namely, they grow proud: by three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear: by a slave when he reigns (Prov 30:1). …
Hippolytus of Rome
Only see that you do not give these things over to unbelieving and blasphemous tongues, for that is no common danger. But impart them to pious and faithful men, who desire to live holily and righteously with fear. For it is not to no purpose that the blessed apostle exhorts Timothy, and says, "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; which some professing have erred concerning the faith." And again, "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in …
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