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&%el(Zj.,
Is. 4i.t. RV ,train') ii derived from a root
meaning ,to hnng down: ~t is only the mantle that
has a skirt or train, and in this lies the whole point of
Is. 471 : the ' tender and delicate' maidens iemove the
veil and flowing robe to perform the work of slaves.
s. &&=&$h. np, mrher 'corner' or 1oore.flowing end. See
Fxlxi:er, and cp S~cr.
3. $ah, n+ see COLLAR, (COI. aj8). I. A.
SKULL. See Ca~vanu, GOLG~TMA.
SLAUGHTEEXEN (Gen. 3736 AVmC., etc.). See
EXECUTLUNER. - ~. I.
SLAVERY. The word does not occur in EV.
,slave' 15 fovnd only twice in AV (~sr. I 14, =,,d here only in
itxlio a an explanation of n:J 7'2 [' home-born rhve 'I; Rev.
18 rl for . .. uld twice in RV (. ~ t 21 . 24,. 3 iwnn.
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.deal with as r slave [mnig. chattell'; A\' 'make n~erchhndiw
of'). The Heb. ma. . 'sbsd.. is rendered 's=rvant'lr . K. 2 -. 2oerc.i .
Alllong the Hebrews, ar in the ancient world in
general, there was no such thing ar free labour in the
modern sense ; men-rrrrants and maidservants
were the property of their
mesning,
marterr-in other words, were slaves.
We must carefully dissociate this word, however, from
certain idear inseoarablv connected with it in the modern
Christian world. ' In tie Hebrew conception there was
no ruch profound difference between the slave's relation
to the head of the houre. and that held bv the other
members of the family. Free-born wives and free-burn
children are legally all alike under the power of the
master of the house. The father can
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sell
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his children
as well as his slaver to another Israelite. The slaves
are not regarded as beings of an inferior order, but are
true members of the family, and, though destitute of
civil rights, are nevertheless regarded as fellowmen.
and, indeed, if of Israelite descent, are held in us high
esteem as freemen who at the same time are foreigners.
Considered in itself, therefore, there is no degradation
attaching to slavery. Thir ir iu6ciently shown by the
one liotorious fact that a man would not infrequently
sell himself into slavery, and voluntarily remain in that
f
shc hnvc borne children to him: and thir had the slnclion of
antiquity even in Mohrmmcd's time (cp WRS, &-in. 7s).