whole issue of freedom and subjection, taking it into areas beyond the reach of politics and law. Thus Jesus’ ministry freed no slaves of men, but liberated slaves of guilt and sin, those held captive by demons, oppressed by disease and handicaps, imprisoned in themselves, and subject to death. The Exodus liberation thus becomes in the New Testament a type of Christ’s liberation of those enslaved to sin and death (e.g. Rev. 1:5–6). But this is precisely an extension and deepening of the Old Testament