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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Colossians 3:23

whatsoever ye do even in the daily round of servile tasks. For the phrase and its significance, see above, Colossians 3:17 and note.

doit heartily Lit., work from the soul. Cp. Ephesians 6:6.

as to the Lord Whose will expressed itself for them in each act of common duty. What a transfiguration of the life for the man, or woman, whom law and custom regarded as merely a purchasable "living chattel"! See Introd. to the Ep. to Philemon, p. 155.

not unto men as the ultimate reasons and constraints.

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