Duties of Masters and Servants.
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians — Ignatius
Ye masters, do not treat your servants with haughtiness, but imitate patient Job, who declares, "I did not despise [1252] the cause [1253] of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me. For what in that case shall I do when the Lord makes an inquisition regarding me?" [1254] And you know what follows. Ye servants, do not provoke your masters to anger in anything, lest ye become the authors of incurable mischiefs to yourselves.
Footnotes:

[1252] Literally, "If I did despise."

[1253] Or, "judgment."

[1254] Job 31:13, 14.

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