| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 460 pągines
...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 clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and p 3 caid. taid, My father, if the prophet had bid... | |
| 1818 - 948 pągines
...and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and 12 Are waters of Noah unto me : for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more g 1 not wash in them, and be clean ? So ne turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near,... | |
| 1819 - 948 pągines
...on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, aud recover the leper. 12 Are gather, and they found none. 28 *Ahe prophet had bid thee do tome great thine, wouldost thou not have done it? how much rather then,... | |
| James Everett - 1819 - 198 pągines
...J 1 Sam. xxv. 38. ^ 1 Cor. i. 27. 5 Chap.xii. 1— 6. • to the eye or the mind. " Are not Abana, Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them and be clean ?"* It is possible they are much superior, but Jordan's streams are to cleanse the leper. If opportunities... | |
| 1820 - 464 pągines
...desired by Elisha to bath in the river Jordan for the cure of the leprosy, exclaimed, are not Abanar and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the...waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? By the Romans bathing was held in great estimation, probably as a luxury, for according to F;ibricius,... | |
| Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pągines
...of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. Then Naaman said, Are not Abana and Pharpar Rivers of Damascus, better than...waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean 1 So he turned and went away in a rage. But his servants persuaded him, and he went down and dipped... | |
| 1848 - 704 pągines
...clean." Could anything be more easy ? The Jordan was not far distant. But what said Naaman ? " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean?" These were the rivers of Naaman's own country ; and probably he thought them better, because, whilst... | |
| 1819 - 996 pągines
...supposing the means to appear, they promise nothing either to the eye or the mind. " Are not Abana, Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel.'' may I not wash in them and be clean ?"ff It is possible they are much superior, but Jordan's streams are to cleanse the leper. If opportunities... | |
| Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 416 pągines
...hand ** over the place, and recover the leper. " Are not Abana and Pharphar, rivers of " Damascus, better than all the waters of " Israel? May I not wash in them, and be " clean?"* So reasoned this wise man ; and so would any other wise man of modern times have reasoned on this occasion.... | |
| 1873 - 350 pągines
...call on the narrie 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...be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage." What fools men are ! They prescribe to God Himself; they are so proud that they will not do the simplest... | |
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