A Condensed Anti-slavery Bible ArgumentS.W. Benedict, 1845 - 91 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 23
Page 21
... reason why no such difficulty is experienced in identifying other crimes with those condemned in the Scriptures being , that the moral vision of most men is not ob- scured by their influence . But we should remember that this is a ...
... reason why no such difficulty is experienced in identifying other crimes with those condemned in the Scriptures being , that the moral vision of most men is not ob- scured by their influence . But we should remember that this is a ...
Page 28
... reason- ing . Thus no person supposes from the description given in 1 Kings xxi . 20 , 25 , that Ahab was a slave or article of personal pro- perty , because we see from the context of his life , actions , and character recorded in the ...
... reason- ing . Thus no person supposes from the description given in 1 Kings xxi . 20 , 25 , that Ahab was a slave or article of personal pro- perty , because we see from the context of his life , actions , and character recorded in the ...
Page 36
... reason to suppose that any of the patriarchs adopted it- for God certainly would never have selected as the chosen depo sitories of the true religion , persons who were in the habit of violat ing it without scruple or remorse ...
... reason to suppose that any of the patriarchs adopted it- for God certainly would never have selected as the chosen depo sitories of the true religion , persons who were in the habit of violat ing it without scruple or remorse ...
Page 39
... reason or policy of this distinction was , that foreigners could not hold real estate in the nation any longer than the Jubilee , when all the land in the country reverted back to its original owners or their heirs ( see Lev . xxv . 10 ...
... reason or policy of this distinction was , that foreigners could not hold real estate in the nation any longer than the Jubilee , when all the land in the country reverted back to its original owners or their heirs ( see Lev . xxv . 10 ...
Page 40
... reasons the statute was undoubtedly intended to regulate free and voluntary service . But it appears from the whole statute ( Ex . xxi . 2—6 ) , that though these sales were free and voluntary as well as limited , yet they might in one ...
... reasons the statute was undoubtedly intended to regulate free and voluntary service . But it appears from the whole statute ( Ex . xxi . 2—6 ) , that though these sales were free and voluntary as well as limited , yet they might in one ...
Other editions - View all
A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument: By a Citizen of Virginia George Bourne No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
absurd abuse American slaveholders apostles bought brethren Canaan CHAPTER children of Israel Christ Christian church condemned connived crime custom customarily described destroy Deut divine doctrine Egypt enslaved Epistle to Philemon fact false free and voluntary heathen Hebrew language Hebrew servitudes human governments human slavery intended Ishmaelites Israel Israelites Jews Jubilee justified latter Law of Nature Levitical law Lord man-stealing masters Matt modern moral duty moral law murder nation never Old Testament Onesimus oppression passages Pentateuch persecution persons Pharaoh political posterity practice of human preaching precepts pretend PRO-SLAVERY PERVERSIONS property or slaves prove punishment quoted reason regulate religion rendered respect sanction Scrip Scriptures sell sins slaveholders slavish sold sons of Noah spirit thee thou shalt tion translation unto verse violation voluntary service whole wicked words buy xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxvii xxxiv
Popular passages
Page 5 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 1 - But be not ye called Rabbi : for one is your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren.
Page 3 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 5 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 1 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 1 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 5 - At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.