This sentiment lies on the very face of the case.

What the master's duty in such a case may be in respect to _liberation_, is another question, and one which the apostle does not here treat of.
3.

Every one knows, who is acquainted with Greek or Latin antiquities, that slavery among heathen nations has ever been more unqualified and at looser ends than among Christian nations.

Slaves were _property_ in Greece and Rome.

That decides all questions about their _relation_.