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After correcting “contradicting” and the other vice of slaves, Christ’s doctrine says, “Do not be thieves.” Now a thief should be judged not only in great things but in lesser matters. For it is not what is taken away by theft that is attended to, but the mind of the thief. Just as in fornication and adultery, fornication or adultery would not on that account be different, if a promiscuous girl or an adulterous woman is pretty or rich, unshapely or poor. On the contrary no matter how she is, the fornication or adultery is one. The same applies to theft. How¬ever much a slave has taken, the crime of theft is incurred. This is why in the law of Moses thieves are compelled to pay back, sometimes sevenfold, sometimes fourfold. And sometimes they are killed,sometimes the thief himself is sold for his theft. I remember recently explaining these things to you (vobis) on Leviticus. Now if this is for¬bidden in the slave, how much more in the free man, lest either a judge snatches what belongs to others, or a soldier who is scarcely contented with his wages plunders what belongs to others?
A very dignified man made a nice response when the integrity of a certain judge was being praised to him. The one who was doing the praising said about him, “He is no thief.” The man replied, “He would have made an excellent slave, if he were not a runaway. The mere suspicion of theft ought to be foreign to all free persons.” Therefore let slaves be subject to their masters in everything; let them be pleasing to their condition; let them not endure their servitude with bitterness; let them not contradict their masters; let them not steal.
And after these things let them “display good faith in all things, so that they may adorn the doctrine of our Savior and God in all things.” For if with their fleshly masters they become faithful in the least thing, greater things will begin to be entrusted to them with God. Now he “adorns the doctrine” of the Lord who does the things that are suitable to his condition. And on the other hand, he confounds it who is not subjected in all things, to whom his condition is displeasing, who as a contradicter and deceiver displays good faith in no respect. For how can he be faithful with God’s property who was not able to exhibit faithfulness to a fleshly master?