“Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.”
Because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free — the divine reckoning: eidotes hoti ekastos... komizomai ('knowing that each... will receive') to agathon ('the good') ho poieo ('that he does'), para kyriou ('from the Lord'), whether doulos ('slave') or eleutheros ('free'), the eschatalogical wage and eternal recognition.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 6:8
Thus then it is not husband only, nor wife, nor children, but virtuous servants also that contribute to the organization and protection of a house. Therefore the blessed Paul has not overlooked this department even. He comes to it, however, in the last place, because it is last in dignity and rank. Still he addresses much discourse also to them, no longer in the same tone as to children, but in a far more advanced way, inasmuch as he does not hold out to these the promise in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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