is also broadly agreed, but can be exaggerated. κύριος was widely used to denote an asserted or acknowledged dominance and right of disposal of superior over inferior (master—slave, king—subject, god—worshiper; see BGD; MM; Lietzmann; TDNT 3:1041–58; Hahn, Titles, 68–70). So to confess someone as “lord” denotes an attitude of subserviency and sense of belonging or devotion to the one so named. And if the confession here was used in baptism, as again is widely agreed to be very likely, it would also