He had sinned against his father and against God; he would return, confess his sin, and ask, not to be reinstated as a son, but to be allowed to work as a hired servant.
The rough garb of poverty was discarded for the best robe; a ring was placed on his finger as a mark of reinstatement; shoes told of restored sonship, not of employment as a hired servant.
The remainder of the regulation is,--"But as anhired servant and as a sojourner shall he be with thee.
We pass to the remainder of the regulation in the 40th verse:-- "But as an hired servant and as a sojourner shall he be with thee.
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant: as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee.
No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Mr. Barnes also says, it is not proved that Onesimus was a literal slave at all; he may have been a hired servant or apprentice.
We remark again, that Hagar was certainly in the relation of domestic slavery, and not of a hired servant, to Abraham and Sarai.
Some of them would make it mean son, some hired servant, and some subject, or dependent citizen.
How can we imagine three years to have any special connexion with the term of a hired servant?
The text may once have said 'for the double he hath served thee', and a dull glossator may have sought within his own consciousness for the rather pointless example suggested by the other reference to a hired servant's service.
Here some one may be disposed to raise the objection that the creditor was not told that the six years was double the term allowed by ancient law, but simply that it was 'the double of the hire of a hired servant'.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hired servant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
