Holy Scripture

Exodus 21:5

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“That man is truly free, a true Hebrew, who is entirely God's. Everything that he possesses shares in freedom. He has nothing in common with the man who rejects freedom and says, "I have loved my master.… I will not go out free." The man who subjects himself to the world is returned not only to his master but also to h…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letter 7.14

Source: Septuagint

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5And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;

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3If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.

4Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master’s; and he shall go forth alone.

— Exodus 21:5 —

6his master shall bring him to the judgment seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door—to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

7And if anyone sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.

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