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Did he oppose slavery?
All: He did not.
“Slavery was incorporated into the civil institutions of Moses; it was recognized accordingly by Christ and his apostles.”—Rev. Dr. Nathan Lord, President of Dartmouth College.
“At the time of the advent of Jesus Christ, slavery in its worst forms prevailed over the world. The Savior found it around him in Judea; the apostles met with it in Asia, Greece and Italy. How did they treat it? Not by denunciation of slave-holding as necessarily sinful.”—Prof. Hodge of Princeton.
“I have no doubt if Jesus Christ were now on earth that he would, under certain circumstances, become a slaveholder.”—Rev. Dr. Taylor of Yale.
Rousseau says: “Christ preaches only servitude and dependence.... True Christians are made to be slaves.”