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Slave of Christ: A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters, and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are also his slaves. Murray J. Harris sets out to uncover what it means to be a slave of Christ. He begins by assessing the nature of actual slavery in the Greco-Roman world and the New Testament’s...

under Spartacus of 73–71 BC, which ended with the crucifixion of 6,000 slaves along the length of the road from Capua to Rome (Appian, Bell. Civ. 1. 14. 120). To have fomented a slave revolt would not only have proved futile58 but would have ensured deterioration of the condition of slaves as ruthless recompense was meted out to them. In any case, history had shown that slaves, when freed, simply adopted the attitudes and ways of their former masters, so that slavery itself was not eradicated. More
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