<p>6:18&nbsp;<i>And being m</i><em>ade free from sin</em>- An allusion to 1 Sam. 17:8,9?&nbsp;&nbsp;This would imply a manumission, a payment of a price by some gracious person to free a person from slavery. Note that the image isn&rsquo;t of one slave master buying a slave from another master. It&rsquo;s of genuine freedom being bought for the slave, by grace. But &ldquo;being then made free&rdquo;, because of this, the freed slave decides to become a slave of the gracious Saviour who paid for their release. Being a slave of Christ is therefore described in 6:19 as a freewill yielding of our bodies, every part of them, to His service. 1 Enoch 5:7,8 and other Jewish writings spoke of &lsquo;freedom from sin&rsquo; coming in the Messianic Kingdom and the destruction of Satan; but Paul applies that phrase to the experience of the Christian believer&nbsp;<em>now&nbsp;</em>- see on 1 Cor. 10:11. J. Milik,&nbsp;<em>The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments from Qumran Cave 4</em>(Oxford: Clarendon, 1976) pp. 248-259. The same phrase occurs with the same meaning in the Testament of Levi 14.1.</p><p><em>You became slaves to righteousness</em>- The change of status is so great that there can be no real question about who in practice we should serve. By status we are the servants of righteousness- but that is not to say that we don&rsquo;t at times in our humanity serve sin in practice. We have yet to become in practice who we are in status. The language of &lsquo;being made free&rsquo; and &lsquo;being made slaves&rsquo; suggests the power of an external process working upon us; and that is the work of the Spirit.</p>