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But, notwithstanding these prejudices, it was her prudent resolution, in this dilemma, to imitate as nearly as she could what was done around her. The prophet, she thought, permitted Naaman the Syrian to bow even in the house of Rimmon.
Damascus was one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is said that when Mahomet beheld it he turned his head aside for fear it should divert his thoughts from heaven. Naaman turned away in a rage.
Torfrida smiled, and fixed her snake's eye upon her wretched rival. "Out! woman, and choose thee a new husband among these French gallants, ere I blast thee from head to foot with the leprosy of Naaman the Syrian." Alftruda shuddered, and fled shrieking into an inner room. "Now, knights, give me that which hangs outside." Ascelin hurried out, glad to escape. In a minute he returned.
He ruled the tribes of Syria from that walled city, and in the spring-time of the year his chiefs gathered the young warriors to make up their minds where they should go to fight and plunder. Among the chiefs was Naaman the Syrian, a young man who led them out to battle when the king could not go, and had several times beaten their foes.
"He professes to remember, and does remember, everything which happened, up to the final crash in the studio. Yet he has made no mention to me of of our child." "He is shy about it," suggested Dick. "You speak first." "I cannot," she replied. "It is for Ronald to do that." "Ah, you dear women!" moralised the young bachelor. "You remind me of Nebuchadnezzar no, I mean Naaman.
What a gloom that throws over our whole life! "But he was a leper." There was who could help him in Syria. None of the eminent doctors in Damascus could do him any good. If he was to get rid of the leprosy, the power must come from on high. It must be some one unknown to Naaman, for he did not know God.
My opinion is that Elisha told him he must settle that matter with his own conscience; but I can imagine that when he had worshipped God before the altar built of the earth brought from the Jordan, and then went into the temple of Rimmon and did what the king did, his conscience must have troubled him. But I care a great deal more for our little maid than for Naaman. I wonder what became of her.
What is there in the Lord's supper, in baptism, yea, in preaching the Word, and prayer, were they not the appointments of God? His name being entailed to them, makes them every one glorious and beautiful. Wherefore, no marvel if he that looks upon them without their title-page goeth away in a rage, like Naaman, preferring others before them. What is Jordan?
He had to learn next that 'the gift of God' was not 'purchased with money' and the prophet's acceptance of his present would have dimmed Elisha's own character, and that of his God, in the newly opened eyes of Naaman. Elisha's answer begins with the solemn adjuration which we first hear from Elijah.
But in your last Edinburgh lecture it seems to me that the spirit of God has come upon you to lead captivity captive. The fifth chapter of the second book of Kings the story of Naaman the leper. I am the servant maid in that story, and I've just discovered that I've been trying to cure my lord's illness with lumps of cotton-wool.
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