Bielas, Lucjan (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Krakowie, 2004)
It is difficult to deal with the ancients without pondering why those who provided the bases for our civilisation, and, in many fields remain for us an unattainable example, created one of the most inhuman social systems – slavery. It is difficult not to ponder why those who created an outstanding system of instructing man in beauty and goodness perceived a great number of their brethren in humanity as things which can be bought, sold, used, destroyed, or as animals, able to speak, but deserving no better treatment than that of animals. It is difficult to deal with the life of the first Christians without asking a question about their attitude to slavery.
