Ecclesiastes 2:7

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I got myself male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle more than all that were in Jerusalem before me:

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Family of slaves, "born in my house "(Protestants) distinct from those whom I got for money. (Haydock) There were generally procured from foreign nations, as the Hebrews obtained their liberty on the sabbatic year. Sheep. David had the like; but Solomon had also horses, 3 Kings x. 21.

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Gregory of Nyssa

AD 394

What is such a gross example of arrogance in the matters enumerated above—an opulent house, and an abundance of vines, and ripeness in vegetable plots, and collecting waters in pools and channeling them in gardens—as for a human being to think himself the master of his own kind? “I got me slaves and slave girls,” he says, and “homebred slaves were born for me.” Do you notice the enormity of the boast? This kind of language is raised up as a challenge to God. For we hear from prophecy that “all things are the slaves” of the power that transcends all. So, when someone turns the property of God into his own property and arrogates dominion to his own kind, so as to think himself the owner of men and women, what is he doing but overstepping his own nature through pride, regarding himself as something different from his subordinates?… You have forgotten the limits of your authority and that your rule is confined to control over things without reason. For it says “let them rule over” winged c... Read More

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