doulos

Peter Clark peter_clark47 at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 15 04:57:18 EDT 2000


I certainly agree that "slave" is the only appropriate translation for 
doulos, but as has been pointed ou it must not have the nagative 
associations of more modern slavery. As an example of the status of the 
slave in NT times, it might be of interest to note that in certain mystery 
religions such as Mithraism, a slave could be of a higher grade than his 
master in the same chapter, and that in this case the master would be as it 
were subservient to his own slave within the context of Mithraic activity.

Peter Clark
Cardiff, UK


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