If our Heavenly Father would protect by law the eye and the tooth of a Hebrew servant, can we for a moment believe that he would abandon that same servant to the brutal rage of a master who would destroy even life itself.
Grimké emphasizes that if God protects the physical well-being of servants, He would not allow them to be subjected to extreme violence.
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