[Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Les fleuves de Damas, l'Abana et le Parpar, ne valent-ils pas mieux que toutes les eaux d'Israël? Ne pourrais-je pas m'y laver et devenir pur? Et il s'en retournait et partait avec fureur.
KJV
[Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 136 (Migne)
Abana, et Pharphar fluvii Damasci meliores omnibus aquis Israel judicio aestimabantur Naaman Syri (IV Reg. V, 12) ; tamen nonnisi in Jordane nostro septies, non sine mysterio, lavatus a lepra potuit mundari (Ibid., 14) . Illa [ id est Ecclesia] etiam, quae, [ hic deest aliquod v…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 139 (Migne)
est ut lavaretur septies in Jordane. Ivit igitur, lavit, et mundatus ad Syriae regna regressus est (IV Reg. V, 10-19) . Puer autem quidam parvulus, elephantino morbo percussus, ad Dei hominem Benedictum est adductus; qui, pristina sanitate recepta, incolumis [Col. 0855C] remeavi…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 153 (Migne)
i et valet et debet fluvio, qui Jordanis appellatur; in quo lavatur, et lotus mundatur Naaman Syrus (IV Reg. V, 12, 14) ; et aquis Siloe, in cujus natatoriis lotus illuminatur caecus [Col. 0825B] natus (Joan. IX, 7) . Valet etiam ex parte assimilari fluvio illi, de quo sanctus J…
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