1. It will be seen at a glance that there is not a word said about _slaves_ in any of these quotations. The word _slave_ or _slaves_ is not once used! And yet these passages, inculcating the duties of _servants_, have been rung in the ears of our poor _slaves_ for the last three hundred years, by hypocritical preachers and slaveholders, as if heaven were chiefly interested and delighted in the perpetuation of an institution which degrades millions of men to a point as low as manhood can possibly descend. The whole gospel preached to slaves is mixed up with this satanic perversion. Even the song of angels announcing "peace on earth and good will to men," is accompanied to the ear of the American bondman, with the base, coarse corruption,--"_Slaves_, obey your masters." 2. The word _servants_, used in these scriptures, is not synonymous with the word _slaves_, as the preachers of oppression assume. The word _andrapodon_ means slave, but that word, the learned tell us, does not occur in the sacred writings. The word _douloi_, used in the above quotations, and translated servants, means precisely what our English word servants means, as that word is understood in free countries. "Our English word servant," says a good authority, "is an exact translation of the Greek word _doulos_. And to translate it into the definite word slave is a gross violation of the original. Our translators of the scriptures have uniformly translated the word doulos into the word servant, _never_ into the word slave, and for the reason that it never means slave. The apostles addressed servants in general, but never slaves in particular; and therefore the term slave (andrapodon) is not found in apostolic writings." The word _doulos_ occurs in the New Testament one hundred and twenty two times,[10] and in no case has it been translated slave. To show the utter fallacy of the assumption that it is synonymous with slave, permit us to supply _slave_ in a few passages where _doulos_ occurs, instead of servant, for if slave and servant mean the same thing, they may be used interchangeably without violating the sense. "Paul and Timotheus the _slaves_ of Jesus Christ." "These are the _slaves_ of the Most High God which do show unto us the way of salvation." "And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God all ye his _slaves_, and ye that fear him small and great." "I am thy fellow _slave_." We might extend these quotations indefinitely, but a sufficient number have been given to show the absurdity of the assumption that the words servant and slave describe the same relation. The pro-slavery rendering of doulos, would make slaves of all the redeemed, and of the holy angels, and would, as Mr. Smith remarks, extend the territory of slavery over heaven itself.