The Works of Voltaire a Contemporary Version With Notes volume 13
The Works of Voltaire a Contemporary Version With Notes volume 13
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If slavery be spoken of, it is the slavery of sin. It is difficult to comprehend how, in St. John, the Jews can say to Jesus : "We have never been slaves to any one" they who were at that time subjected to the Romans ; they who had been sold in the mar- ket after the taking of Jerusalem ; they of whom ten tribes, led away as slaves by Shalmaneser, had disap- peared from the face of the earth, and of whom two other tribes were held in chains by the Babylonians for seventy years ; they who had be...en seven times reduced to slavery in their promised land, according to their own avowal ; they who in all their writings speak of their bondage in +hat Egypt which they abhorred, but to which they ran in crowds to gain Dictionary. 215 money, as soon as Alexander condescended to allow them to settle there. The reverend Dom Calmet says, that we must understand in this passage, "in- trinsic servitude, " an explanation which by no means renders it more comprehensible. Italy, the Gauls, Spain, and a part of Germany, were inhabited by strangers, by foreigners become masters, and natives reduced to serfs.
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