Paul a slave?

From: Harold R. Holmyard III (hholmyard@ont.com)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 15:11:21 EDT

 Dear b-greek,
     Last week we talked about whether Paul thought of himself as a slave
when using the term DOULOS. I ran across some material on hUIOQESIA by
Joseph Fitzmyer (Anchor commentary on Romans) which might be relevant to
how Paul thought of himself.

For Paul huiothesia denotes a special status: because of faith baptized
Christians have been taken into the family of God, have come under the
patria potestas, "paternal authority," of God himself, and have a
legitimate status in that family, not simply that of slaves (who belonged,
indeed, to the ancient familia), but of sons.

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard 

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