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121:3.8 Superior [[slaves]] often received wages and by saving their earnings were able to purchase their [[freedom]]. Many such emancipated [[slaves]] rose to high positions in [[state]], church, and the [[business]] world. And it was just such [[possibilities]] that made the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christian_Church early Christian church] so [[tolerant]] of this modified form of [[slavery]].
 
121:3.8 Superior [[slaves]] often received wages and by saving their earnings were able to purchase their [[freedom]]. Many such emancipated [[slaves]] rose to high positions in [[state]], church, and the [[business]] world. And it was just such [[possibilities]] that made the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christian_Church early Christian church] so [[tolerant]] of this modified form of [[slavery]].
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121:3.9 There was no widespread [[social]] problem in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome#Empire Roman Empire] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_centur first century] after Christ. The major portion of the [[populace]] regarded themselves as belonging in that [[group]] into which they [[chanced]] to be [[born]]. There was always the open door through which [[talented]] and able [[individuals]] could [[ascend]] from the [[Social status|lower to the higher]] strata of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Roman society], but the people were generally content with their [[Social status|social rank]]. They were not [[class]] [[conscious]], neither did they look upon these class distinctions as being unjust or wrong. [[Christianity]] was in no sense an [[economic]] movement having for its [[purpose]] the amelioration of the miseries of the depressed classes.
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121:3.9 There was no widespread [[social]] problem in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome#Empire Roman Empire] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first century] after Christ. The major portion of the [[populace]] regarded themselves as belonging in that [[group]] into which they [[chanced]] to be [[born]]. There was always the open door through which [[talented]] and able [[individuals]] could [[ascend]] from the [[Social status|lower to the higher]] strata of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Roman society], but the people were generally content with their [[Social status|social rank]]. They were not [[class]] [[conscious]], neither did they look upon these class distinctions as being unjust or wrong. [[Christianity]] was in no sense an [[economic]] movement having for its [[purpose]] the amelioration of the miseries of the depressed classes.
    
121:3.10 Although [[woman]] enjoyed more [[freedom]] throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome#Empire Roman Empire] than in her restricted position in [[Palestine]], the [[family]] [[devotion]] and [[natural]] [[affection]] of the [[Jews]] far [[transcended]] that of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile gentile] world.
 
121:3.10 Although [[woman]] enjoyed more [[freedom]] throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome#Empire Roman Empire] than in her restricted position in [[Palestine]], the [[family]] [[devotion]] and [[natural]] [[affection]] of the [[Jews]] far [[transcended]] that of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile gentile] world.