Now Paul is instructing Timothy in the issues, which he should be addressing as he speaks to the church in Ephesus. And in chapter six, he gets to the issues of servants or more literally, slaves, and their masters. Now there are those people who say, well the Bible advocates or encourages slavery. That is not so! Nowhere in the Bible do you find slavery encouraged. But these are the conditions that existed. Paul is talking about learning to be content in whatever your postion in life, for Godliness with contentment is true riches. So in the Roman Empire at the time that Paul was writing to Timothy, there were sixty million slaves. Now in those days the whole social strata was really divided between the masters or the lords and the slaves. And so today what Paul is saying here, concerning the servants with their masters, would appropriately be addressed to employees and employers, because the masters in those days were the employers and the slaves were the employees.
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