We have Old Testament examples of what it looks like for enslaved Jews to honor God’s name before unbelievers; for example, Daniel and Joseph. In both cases they found themselves under a foreign entity who had power over life and death. Joseph, when pressured to have sex with Potiphar’s wife, refused and suffered as a result. Daniel refuses to bow down to an idol. Both were lauded in the biblical and Second Temple material as examples of faithfulness under slavery. Thus, it is wrong to construe Paul’s call to submit as implying that he wanted Christian slaves to do whatever their masters
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