...thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, aud said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of...the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the watfcrs of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be...

...something very different from this. " Behold, I thought," says he, " that 84 the Man of God will surely come out to " me, and stand and call on the name of the w Lord his God, and strike his hand over " the place, and recover the leper. Are not " Abana and Pharphar,...

...his own mind, the whole process of the cure of his own leprosy. " Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper." Not one iota of his conjecture was realized. The prophet did not come out, nor assume the supposed...

...shall be clean. 1 1 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely moment ; but with everlasting kindness will I have...on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. 9 For this is 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may 1 not...

...shall be clean. 1 1 but Naamah was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely h is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 27 ^...it came to pass, that there went ant tome of the p aud recover the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters...

...thy flesh shall come again. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, I thought he would surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of...strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. Then Naaman said, Are not Abana and Pharpar Rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel...

...But Naaman was sore troubled that the prophet came not out to him, himself, as he expected he would, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and so recover him : but his servant came near and said to him/" my father, if the prophet had bid thee...

...lofty, that in this way only could Elisha deal with him. " I thought," said he, angrily, "He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper." Just such is fallen man. Though spiritually a leper, and not unconscious of it, he is vain, arrogant,...

...the Syrian thought, when he went to the Prophet : he thought the Prophet would stand and call upon the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. The natural ideas of this fallen Chief and Naaman, apjieared to be very similar. My own mind was deeply...

...when ' he was wroth, and said, Behold, I thought he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.' Christ frequently goes a much plainer way to work ; and hy this means He disconcerts all our preconccived...