LESSON XVII.—Exegesis of the thirty-third chapter of Ecclesiasticus, 502 to 503; the providence of God manifested in placing deteriorated races under the control of races less debased, 504, 505. STUDY VII. LESSON I.—Critical examination into the meaning of the Greek word δουλος, _doulos_, _slave_, as used both by the sacred and classical writers, 506. LESSON II.—Abolition denunciation of the Bible, 507, 508; tendency to mystery in the human mind; the God of Abraham and Moses, who gave command how to treat slaves, to be trustingly worshipped, 508, 509. LESSON III.—The meaning of δουλος as used by the Greek poets, 510; Valckenaerus on the phonetic relation of Greek words to their derivative, 511 to 514; the argument that δουλος could not have meant an unconditional slave, refuted, 515, 516. LESSON IV.—Extracts from Grecian historians, philosophers, and poets, showing the classical sense in which they used the word δουλος and its derivatives, 516 to 536. LESSON V.—The use of the word δουλος by Thucydides, Herodotus, and Xenophon, 536 to 546. LESSON VI.—Extracts from Xenophon continued, 546 to 549. LESSON VII.—Extracts from Xenophon’s Cyropædia, 549 to 554. LESSON VIII.—Extracts from Herodotus of Halicarnassus, 554 to 558. LESSON IX.—The Scriptural use of the word δουλος, 559 to 561. LESSON X.—Scriptural extracts continued, 562 to 564. LESSON XI.—The Greek word signifying _slave-stealers_ in 1 Tim. i. 5 to 11, 564 to 566; quotation from Xenophon in proof, 566; the appeal of Mr. Barnes to the Dutch, 567; Greek words from _freeman_ and _slave_, 568. LESSON XII.—Paul on slave stealing, 569 to 572. LESSON XIII.—Reasons for Paul’s instructions to Timothy and to Christian slaves respecting slave-stealing and the duties of the servile condition, 572 to 575. LESSON XIV.—The use of the word δουλος by Jesus Christ, 576, 577. LESSON XV.—Use of the word δουλος by Paul, Peter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 578 to 581. LESSON XVI.—Origin of the English word _servant_ and its derivatives, 581; its use by the sacred writers and Grecian scholars, 582 to 585. STUDY VIII. LESSON I.—Hebrew orthography of the word by which we mean _slave_, 586 to 588; the corresponding word in the Arabic, Chaldaic, and Syriac languages, 588 to 590. LESSON II.—Tendency of the Shemitic languages to the rhetorical figure prosopopœia, 590 to 594. LESSON III.—Examples of the Hebrew word meaning _slave_, both as a noun and a verb, 595 to 601. LESSON IV.—Refutation of the assertion that the root of the Hebrew word meaning _slave_ is also used in a sense signifying _worship_, 602 to 607. LESSON V.—Further quotations from the sacred writers, showing the meaning attached to the Hebrew word signifying _slave_ in the Old Testament, 607 to 609.