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Podcast: Seeking the Gospel Truth
Episode: 11.14: We are No Longer Slaves to Sin Because of the Redemption of Jesus
Description: When I wrote my novel, Deo Volente: God Willing,  I did a lot of research on slavery in the Roman Empire. Slaves at that  time were mostly people captured from all the lands the Romans  conquered. What’s different from first century slavery than slavery in  early American history and the human trafficking slave trade that goes  on now, is that a slave could be freed if one paid a sum of money for  the person. That’s called redemption. They were redeemed for usually 500  denarii. A denarius was a day’s wages. So, someone had to work 500 days  to redeem a sl...