Ver. 2.-The duties of slaTJes to <Jhristian masters. This relationship W'Ould be less common than the other. L THE RESPECT DUE TO CllBISTIAN lll.ABTERS. "And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they a.re brethren, but the rather serve them." The duty is present.ad in a twofold form. 1. Negativel,y. "Let them not despise them." The false teachers might tell the slaves that their servitude was incon- sistent with Christian liberty. The slaves might thus, especially in the case of Christian masters, regard them as fully their equa.ls on the ground of the common brotherhood of believers, and refuse them the respect due to their position. 2. PositiTJtlly. "But the rather serve them." The best way of effecting a partial amelioration of their condition was by rendering a service all the more faithful, because it was rendered to a brother in Christ. Servants must never under any circumstances be disrespectful. II. THE BEABONS FOR THIS COMllAND. They are twofold. 1. Because t'Aew ,naskrs ON lwethrm. The slaves ought, therefore, to treat them with Christian respect and generosity, knowing that such a service is showing kindness to "brethren." 2. Beca'IJ,Se the. who were " to rerei'1tl tM 'benefit" of their hearty and willing servia were "faithful and belowtl." This thought ought to dignify as well as ameliorate the position of the slave. Such masters were willing to receive such service. Ill. THE NEOEBBITY o:r ENFORCING THESE DUTIES. "These things teach and exhort." 1. JC waa necessary for tM comfort of tM slave himself ae well as for the intereats of the ma.at«-. 2. lt was necessary for tM credit and honowr of tM gospel, which would be gravely compromised by restiveness or insubordination on the part of the great subject claaa. 3. The gospel is not TJulgariud by 1uch counsel. It rather dignifies human life in it.I meanest respects by infusing into it a new beauty and a new generoaity of feeling.-T. 0.
Vera. ~.-.A warning agaimt tlwse w1w oppose wek wlwkBO'TM l«wl(;n,g. L TBB OPP08ITIOli' 'I'() Al'OBTOLIC TEACHING ON THE DUTIES OF SLAVES. " If any one teaoheth other doctrine, and does not &SIient to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Cwt, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness." 1. The nature of tl&u/alse ....... li points, u the word sipifi-, to "a different doctrine" from that o the oe. TI.1-ZL] THE J'IBBT EPIBTLE TO TDIOTHY, 129