(July 12, 2022 at 3:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It is advantageous for slaves and masters, fit to be such by nature, that one be the master, and the other the slave. And so there can be friendship between them, since the association of both in what is advantageous for each is the essence of friendship.
- Thomas Aquinas
Nudger beat me to the "allegorical" comment. You could also expect words and phrases like "bondsman, not really slave", "kidnapped, not really slave", "Jubilee", "cultural context" and "chose to be enslaved", among others. Anything other than just admitting that the bible endorses owning other humans (and Aquinas does as well).