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unprofitable servant

From: "Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>
To: "b-greek" <b-greek AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: unprofitable servant
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:04:59 -0400

Lev 25:39-46 makes the distinction between the treatment of
a bondslave and a hired servant or sojourner (see also Deu
15:12-18). I gather that the distinguishing condition of
the bondslave is that he works with great rigour and without
any reward other than sustenance. I think the bondslave is
generally "in for life." Is Christ's reference to an
unprofitable servant in Luke 17:7 a specific allusion to the
type of bondslave mentioned in Lev? The Liddell-Scott does
not make any such reference to the use of an idiom such as
DOULOI ACREIOI, but I thought someone on one of the lists
might know differently.

Thanks!

doulos sou,
Bryan

B. M. Rocine
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unprofitable servant, Bryan Rocine, 09/15/1999