"Let as many _servants as are under the yoke_ count their _own masters_ worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have _believing masters_, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort."--1 Tim. vi. 1, 2. "Exhort _servants_ to be obedient unto their _own masters_, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things."--Titus ii. 9, 10. "_Servants_, be subject to _your masters_ with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully."--1 Peter ii. 18, 19. We have but a single word of comment to offer upon these passages of Scripture. The original words used by the Greek writers, both sacred and profane, to express slave; the most abject condition of slavery; to express the absolute owner of a slave, and the absolute control of a slave, are the strongest that the language affords, and are used in the passages here quoted. If the apostles understood the common use of words, and desired to convey these ideas, and to recognize the relations of master and servant, they would, naturally enough, employ the very words used. To say that they did not know the primary meaning and _usus loquendi_ of the original words, is paying them a compliment we wish not to participate in! And to show that we are not singular in our views of the meaning expressed in the passages quoted, showing that they express in the one case slaves, and in the other masters or owners, actually holding them as property, under the sanction of the laws of the State, we quote from the following authorities: That great commentator, Dr. ADAM CLARKE, on 1 Cor. vii. 21, says: "Art thou converted to Christ while thou art a slave--the property of another person, and bought with his money? _Care not for it._" The learned Dr. Neander, in his work entitled "Planting and Training of the Church," in referring to _Onesimus_, mentioned in the epistle to Philemon, says of him: "It does not appear to be surprising that a _runaway slave_ should betake himself at once to Rome." To the foregoing might be added other authorities of equal weight and importance.