It is precisely Kuyper who in his treatment of the eighth commandment made the idea of the steward into a central concept. It seems likely that Kuyper found this idea in Bastingius. While Bastingius only mentions the idea very briefly, Kuyper expands it into an overarching concept, approaching many things from this angle: that one should not treat the other as a slave, how man should treat animals, how he should interact with the world, how he should use his body, and the use and misuse of money and possessions.
Translated by S. Carl Van Dam