“Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;”
What I am saying is that as long as the heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. — Paul's domestic metaphor: an underage heir ('nepios' — infant, minor) has no functional difference from a slave ('doulos') despite owning the estate ('ousia'); the heir's minority is a form of bondage, a condition to be transcended at maturity.
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