2 Kings 5:1-19 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable… The great discovered this when a young man. His father, a heathen, had said to the lad, "Be great." His mother, Monica, a devoted Christian, had whispered, "Be good." "I will be both," he answered, "but great first." And when, after years of folly and then of philosophy, he resolved to "be good," he found himself a slave to sin. Not till he cast himself wholly on Divine power and grace did he gain the "new heart." Then, the things he had once been afraid to lose he cast from him with joy. "Thou expellest them," he cried, in an ecstasy of joy, "and comest in Thyself instead of them." Thus Augustine the sinner became Augustine the saint. Parallel Verses KJV: Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. |
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