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What did the apostles teach?
Peter: “Servants [slaves], be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward” ([1 Peter ii, 18]).
Paul: “Let as many servants [slaves] as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor” ([1 Timothy vi, 1]). “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling” ([Ephesians vi, 5]).
The Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fisk, president of Wesleyan University, says: “The New Testament enjoins obedience upon the slave as an obligation due to a present rightful authority.”