 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...cure : " 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." At this moment one of his servants remonstrated with him upon the rashness of his conduct : " If the... | |
 | Author of The infant Christian's first catechism - Bible stories, English - 1833 - 238 pages
...journey ? " 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." Thus spake this haughty Syrian. Thus foolishly did he turn away from the blessing offered him by the... | |
 | Russell Streeter - Calvinism - 1833 - 208 pages
...that I may not be burthenst>me, I will make but few remarks on your sermon, from 2d Kings, v : 13. ' My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, would' st thou not have done it 1' The style of the sermon was good ; and you managed it so as to make... | |
 | John Sheppard - Consolation - 1833 - 404 pages
...attendant to the Syrian captain, which has been often alluded to by divines in this connexion, — " My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it?"* Yet, while the simplicity of any principle or means, and therefore... | |
 | Gregory Townsend Bedell, Stephen Higginson Tyng - Bible - 1835 - 650 pages
...the leper. 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...father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? Then... | |
 | Thomas Tunstall Haverfield - Sermons, English - 1835 - 304 pages
...the leper. 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." Any work of apparent difficulty or danger he would have performed ; any sum of money, even, perhaps,... | |
 | William Sharpe - 1836 - 408 pages
...the leper. 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. AFFLICTION generally produces humility, but it failed of this effect in the case of Naaman the Syrian.... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...our small part of the work, may well apply to us the words of the servant of the Syrian Captain — ' If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it ? ' Suppose these hundred and eighteen miles, (for that is all which remains), completed, how shall... | |
 | 1836 - 1290 pages
...rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel 1 may I not wash in them, and be clean Í So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and 13 «pake unto him, and said. My father, i/the prophet had bid thee do капе great thing, wouldcst... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...leper. 12. Jlre 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. 13. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee... | |
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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 ? ' So he turned and went away in a rage. 
