 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1818 - 376 pages
...When the event belied their groundless expectations, with Naaman they turned away in a rage, saying, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ?" " Away with this man, crucify him, not this man but Barabbas." 2. Observe here... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, aud recover the leper. 12 r to gather, and they found none. 28 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, *Ahe prophet had bid thee do... | |
 | James Everett - 1819 - 198 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...name 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...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 pages
...shalt be 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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...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... | |
 | John Venn - 1822 - 460 pages
...goodness of God. He has ordained it, and let us be satisfied and thankful. Let us not say with Naaman, "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? I thought, surely he would have come out to me, and waved bis hand over me." Rather... | |
 | Henry Scougal - Theology, Doctrinal - 1822 - 328 pages
...thing to surprise and amaze us here? What better is this than our ordinary entertainment at home ? Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? * Such may be the thoughts of profane and ignorant fools; for the outside of this... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 416 pages
...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.... | |
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Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? 
