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For the LORD listens to the needy, and His captives He has not despised.  Psalm 69:34 [Hebrew Bible]  Robert Alter Captives – Paul often introduces himself as doúlos christóu which is typically translated “bond-servant.”  But that’s not what it really means.  A doúlos is a slave—compulsory, bound service.  In the Greek world, this designation was…