Colossians 4:1. Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;-
I sometimes think that the good men who chopped the Bible up into chapters-for it is not in chapters in the original,-must have hoped that we should not read this message to the masters, as he had put it in another chapter. But I never like to read about the servants without also reading about the masters. There is six for one, and half-a-dozen for the other; and, as is usual, in the Scriptures, there are balanced duties. If there is an exhortation to the children, there is generally one to the parents close by; and if there is a word to wives, there is one for husbands, too. So let us read that verse, "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;-
Colossians 4:1. Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;-
I sometimes think that the good men who chopped the Bible up into chapters-for it is not in chapters in the original,-must have hoped that we should not read this message to the masters, as he had put it in another chapter. But I never like to read about the servants without also reading about the masters. There is six for one, and half-a-dozen for the other; and, as is usual, in the Scriptures, there are balanced duties. If there is an exhortation to the children, there is generally one to the parents close by; and if there is a word to wives, there is one for husbands, too. So let us read that verse, "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;-