the word doulos to describe his role. Literally, it means, “For all these years I have been your slave.” That is a typical legalistic mentality. He was admitting that everything he had ever done for his father was done under a sense of compulsion, not gladly. His service to the father had been a drudgery equivalent to slavery in his own mind. His life at home was anything but a delight as far as he was concerned. He had no joy of his own and therefore was not the least bit interested in participating