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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Ephesians 6:7

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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good will--expressing his feeling towards his master; as "doing the will of God from the heart" expresses the source of that feeling (Col 3:23). "Good will" is stated by XENOPHON [Economics] to be the principal virtue of a slave towards his master: a real regard to his master's interest as if his own, a good will which not even a master's severity can extinguish.
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