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What did the apostles teach?
Peter: “Servants [slaves], be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward” (1 Peter ii, 18).
Paul: “Let as many servants [slaves] as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor” (1 Timothy vi, 1). “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling” (Ephesians vi, 5).
The Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fisk, president of Wesleyan University, says: “The New Testament enjoins obedience upon the slave as an obligation due to a present rightful authority.”