“Having made man in His own image, a rational being, He meant him to be lord only over irrational beings: not man set over man, but man set over beasts... The first cause of servitude is sin, by which man is subjected to man by the bonds of his condition... But by that nature in which God formerly created man, nobody is slave either to man or to sin.”
Quote by Augustine of Hippo
Work
The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint): A New Translation
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