This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...went further still. Many of the most illustrious names in the early Christian hierarchy are prominent in the campaign against all slavery--resolute in their determination to destroy the hateful and fatal custom--and although they never dared to hope that they would live to see its destruction, still they did ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...went further still. Many of the most illustrious names in the early Christian hierarchy are prominent in the campaign against all slavery--resolute in their determination to destroy the hateful and fatal custom--and although they never dared to hope that they would live to see its destruction, still they did all that in them lay to discredit it in the eyes of the believers in Jesus, and in the meantime to mitigate the unhappy lot of the vast army of helpless bondmen. The apostolical constitutions (a document certainly as early as the fifth century) orders that the slave should not be required to work on the Sunday in memory of the Redemption, or on the Saturday in memory of the Creation. Paulinus of Nola, one of the great names of the closing years of the fourth century, in a letter addressed to Sulpicius Severus, the well-known friend and biographer of St. Martin of Tours, writes in the following terms: they express, almost in an exaggerated form, his horror of slavery. He is speaking of a young slave whom Sulpicius Severus has sent him. He had recognized in this slave a very noble nature, a pure and upright soul. " And this man has been my slave," wrote St. Paulinus of Nola, " he has waited on me, and / allowed him to do so--I, a sinner, have suffered one who was no servant of sin to be the slave of me a sinner. Daily he would wash my feet, daily he would perform for me willingly any menial office; ever ready with any service of his hands, careful only in matters which touched the soul. Ah, me! I see Jesus Christ present in this youth, for surely every holy and humble man of heart comes straight from the sacred heart of Christ!" Chrysostom, the revered and saintly archbishop of Constantinople, in one of his famous sermons, even ventured upon...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN:
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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Published:
1906
Language:
English
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17654089122
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