Son - The Hebrew word occurs here only and is therefore of doubtful meaning. The favored slave, petted and pampered from boyhood, will claim…

Shall have him become his son at the last.— Confidential slaves sometimes rose to be the heirs of their master’s property…

He that delicately brings up his servant from a child: In a very tender and affluent way uses him with great familiarity;…

Proper treatment of a servant does not mean indulgence, which would ruin even a child. The body is a servant to the soul; those who indulge it and …