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...... However, in his opinion, a free man is also the one who, despite his lack of understanding of the religious sings, is aware of their nature as signs and not as the original source of faith. Thus, the person, who does not understand what a sign means, but at least understands that it is a sign, is not in fact subjected to slavery. It is better to be dominated by unknown but useful signs than to interpret them in a useless way and so thrust one's neck, rescued from the yoke slavery, into the toils of error (St. Augustine, 32). Therefore, the issue of slavery in Augustines interpretation is overall related to the idea of interpretation and to spiritual oppression of the soul if subject to a system of values he interprets of adopts in a wrongful manner
By comparison to Augustines point of view and approach, there is the traditional sense of the term slavery, as a degrading institution for the Roman Empire at the time of its greatest expansion. Especially during the Roman domination of Palestine, the Israelites were considered to be an enslaved people; however, the perspective was more physical related, rather than spiritual. In this

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