[Lesson IX].—The admission of Barnes in regard to slaves escaping to the Hebrew country, [119]; his assertion, that the Hebrews were not a nation of slaveholders, overthrown by Scripture testimony, [120], [121].
[Lesson X].—Distribution by the Hebrews of captives taken in battle, [122], [123]; Greek custom in regard to captives made in war, [124]; proof-texts from the Bible, [125].
[Lesson XI].—The claim of Barnes to identity with the African race, [126]; his views on Paul’s injunction to sympathize with those in bonds controverted, [127], [128].
[Lesson XII].—Legend of Antioch, Margarita, and the Roman Præfect Olybius, [128] to [133]; song of the slaves, [131], [132]; letter of Olybius to the Emperor Probus, manufactured from the language of Mr. Barnes, [133] to [135].
[Lesson #XIII].—Barnes’s admissions of the existence of Hebrew and Roman slavery, [136], 137.
[Lesson XIV].—The denial of Barnes that slavery cannot be defended by Bible arguments, 138; its influence on agriculture, commerce, arts, and the African slave himself considered, idem; Sedgjo, the African slave in Louisiana, [139], [140]; the Periplus of Hanno, [140], [141]; the testimony of the Landers on the depravity of native Africans, 142 to [144]; the Landers made slaves, [145]; various historical authorities on African and Moorish slavery, [145] to [155].
[Lesson XV].—Authorities to prove African degradation continued, [155] to [158]; slavery subservient to the religious conversion of African slaves, [159], [160].
[Lesson XVI].—Paul’s exhortations to slaves considered, [161], [162]; God’s sentence of four hundred years of slavery upon the Hebrews, [163].
[Lesson XVII].—The assertion of Barnes, that a slave bought with money had compensation commanded to be paid him by Scripture, controverted, [163], [164]; Barnes’s declaration of the cunning of the Apostles in not condemning slavery, [165], [166].
[Lesson XVIII].—Argument that the injunctions of the Bible upon God’s ancient people are in force and equally binding upon Christians now, (Christians are the heirs of Abraham,) 160 to [169].