the people of God were called to be a witness to the world. The eschatological body of Christ combined Jew and Greek, slave and free, barbarian and Scythian, and male and female into a unity in which all were called to love and serve the other. As fellow members of the body through the grace of God, they were to love one another irrespective of their current positions, whether a socially imposed position such as slave or free, one determined by a distinction based on creation such as male or female, or one related to an ethnic division with long-standing hostilities such as Jew or Greek.34
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