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His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
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Verse 13. Father; a title given to masters, kings, and so forth The Romans senators were styled, “conscript fathers;” and Homer calls kings “the fathers and shepherds of the people.” See Genesis 45:8. Calmet.—Masters may often derive benefit from the observations of their servants, as Naaman did repeatedly, verse 2. This may serve to correct their pride. Bible.—Clean. The patient ought not to prescribe rules to his physician. Menochius.—How justly might these words be addressed to delicate penitents! Bible.
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