So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.

所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。

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It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the Lord set His heart on you and chose you ; indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the Lord favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the Lord freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

并非因你们的人数多于别民,耶和华专爱你们，拣选你们,原来你们的人数在万民中是最少的;,只因耶和华爱你们,又因要守他向你们列祖所起的誓,就用万能的手领你们出来,从为奴之家救赎你们，脱离埃及王法老的手。

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The slaves and the freed persons of a Roman household Familia were legally the ones who were the familia.

一户罗马家庭的奴隶及被释放的自由民,法律上就称为。

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But legally the word client in Latin refers to the freed slaves of apaterfamilias.

但是法律上拉丁语“被庇护人“,是指被家长释放的自由人。

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