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2 Kings 5:132Kgs.5.13

And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Mais ses serviteurs s'approchèrent pour lui parler, et ils dirent: Mon père, si le prophète t'eût demandé quelque chose de difficile, ne l'aurais-tu pas fait? Combien plus dois-tu faire ce qu'il t'a dit: Lave-toi, et tu seras pur!

KJV

And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

Patristic reading

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    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. 185 (Migne)

    matum. Unde bene de Naaman Scriptura meminit quia restituta est caro ejus, sicut caro pueri parvuli (IV Reg. V, 13, 10, 14) : significans, ut arbitror, [Col. 0064A] quia eorum, qui sic se abluunt, non solum corda recuperant innocentiam parvulorum; sed etiam corpora secundum quem…

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