1 Corinthians 7:21

Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.
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Ambrosiaster

AD 400
Paul encourages slaves to serve their earthy masters well, so that they may appear to them to deserve their freedom. A slave who did not do his work properly would blaspheme the name of Christ and do nothing to further God’s cause. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
Not to say such a request as that (forsooth) their rivals-all the more "free "in that they are the "hand-maids "of Christ alone

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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