ACC ~ Ephesians 6 v8

REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL LOCATION, WHATEVER GOOD ONE DOES WILL COME TO THE LORD’S ATTENTION. CHRYSOSTOM: Regrettably it is the way of many unbelieving masters to feel no shame when they fail to keep faith. They do not give any just return to their slaves for their obedience. Paul comes to comfort these servants. They should not look for retaliation but be fully confident about their ultimate compensation. Those who receive benefits but make no just payment to their servants are putting themselves in debt to God, ultimately. If your master receives good from you but does not treat you fairly, you do well to serve him all the more earnestly. You have all the more compensation stored up finally. For God is watching these transactions. Your time of compensation will come. HOMILY ON EPHESIANS 22.6.5-8.

THE CATEGORIES OF SLAVERY AND MASTERY BELONG ONLY TO THIS LIFE, NOT FUTURE LIFE. THEODORET: He shows that slavery and mastery are categories that are confined to this present life. When we pass on from here, these distinctions will no longer apply. There nothing will be based on social status, such as slave or master, but on virtue and vice. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 6.8.

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