| 1828
...Jordan seven times." Naaman, in his turn, is wroth also, at being treated with such disrespect : " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? So he turned and went away in a rage." " But a soft answer turneth away wrath ;... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 424 pàgines
...institutions of the gospel ; just as the Syrian leper, when he was ordered to wash in Jordan, objected, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...of Israel ? — May I not wash in them and be clean ? The same humour often opposes the doctrines, as well as institutions of God. Some hastily reject... | |
| Theophilus Lindsey - 1810 - 564 pàgines
...and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may not I wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned, and went away in a rage." Vain mortals are apt to-... | |
| Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 350 pàgines
...ceremonies," and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus (in " mine own country) better than all the waters " of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be " clean ? And he went away in a rage." But his servants intreated him to be obedient to the word of the prophet,... | |
| Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 424 pàgines
...ceremonies, " and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Phhrpar, rivers of Damascus (in mine own country) better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? And he went away in a rage." But his servants intreated him to be obedient to the word of the prophet,... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 904 pàgines
...Barrady or Chrysorrhoas, which waters the city of Damascus and the country about it (2 Kings v. li'.) " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters «>f Israel?" The river of Damascus has its fountain in the mountains of Libanus. PHARSALIA,... | |
| 1842 - 612 pàgines
...and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike bis hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? " But God cleaves to his prescription, which is — not do, not tuffer — mark... | |
| 1815 - 872 pàgines
...name of the Eternal his God, and touch.with his hand the infected place, and remove the leprosy. 12. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? why may I not batbe in them and be cleansed? So he turned, and went away in a rage.... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pàgines
...FpUfltpia he hath opened for sin and for uncleanness, they have been ready to say, as Naaman t» Elisha, "Are not Abana and Pharpar. rivers of Damascus, better than all the watera of Israel ? ttiay I Bptwaqh, in them and be clean ?" (9 Kings v. 1«:|— • ' Will rtofc QU?... | |
| William Ward - 1815 - 588 pàgines
...sacred, srems to have prevailed amongst other heathen nations. Hrnoe. >Taa«nan, the Syrian, said, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel i May I not wo.-h in them and be clean ?" « . The grand-father of Beeshmn was one... | |
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