From the biblical proverb "The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender" (1), through Hillel's Prosbul (which abolished hope for debt forgiveness and perpetuated enslavement as the inevitability of impoverishment), the Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, from the New Testament, comes to consecrate the obedience of the slave to his master, in Chapter 6