Such, then, being the fact, we cannot find it in our heart to blame him for “expressing the sympathies of brotherhood.” But we feel disposed with kindness to relieve his mind from the burthen of such portion of sympathy for those of his _race_ who are in slavery, as he may conceive to be a duty imposed by the injunction, “Remember those who are in bond, as bound with them.” We will quote the passage, _Heb._ xiii. 3: “Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them.” It is translated from the Greek— Μιμνήσκεσθε τῶν δεσμίων ὡς συνδεδεμένοι, _Mimnēsicĕsthe tōn dĕsmiōn hōs sundĕdĕmĕnoi_. The words translated “bonds,” “bound with,” &c. are derived from the root δέω, _deo_, and signifies to bind, to bring together, to chain, to fetter, to hinder, to restrain, &c., which meaning falls into all its derivations. When one was accused of some offence, and was, on that account, restrained, so that he might be surely had at a trial for the same, such restraint would be expressed, as the case required, by some of its derivations. Hence we have δέσις, _dĕsis_, the act of binding; δέσμα, _desma_, a bond, a chain; δέσμιος, _desmios_, chained, fettered, imprisoned, &c.; δεσμός, _desmos_, a bond, chain, knots, cords, cables; δεσμόω, _desmŏō_, to enchain, to imprison; δεσμοφύλαξ, _desmophulax_, a jailer, &c. The word is used, differently varied, in _Matt._ xvi. 19; xviii. 18; _Acts_ viii. 23; xx. 23; xxiii. 21; xxvi. 29; _Rom._ vii. 2; 1 _Cor._ vii. 39; _Eph._ iv. 3; _Philip._ i. 16; _Col._ iv. 18; 2 _Tim._ ii. 9; _Philem._ 10; _Heb._ x. 34; xi. 36; and never used, in any sense whatever, to express any condition of slavery. St. Paul was under the _restraint_ of the law upon a charge of heresy. All the Christians of his day were very liable to like danger. His only meaning was that all such should be remembered, as though they themselves were suffering a like misfortune. Suppose he had expressed the idea more diffusely and said, “Remember all Christians who, for teaching Christ crucified, are persecuted on the charge of teaching a false religion, as though you yourselves were persecuted with them.”