my servant Rather, slave. Observe the centurion's orders, his soldierscome and go, i. e. march when he bids them. His slavehe orders to do this, i. e. perform any servile work.

Mark this as the first contact of Jesus with slavery. With such relations between master and slave as these slavery would soon pass away.

It was no express enactment of Christ, but the Spirit of Christ, which this centurion had caught, that abolished slavery.

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