2 Kings 5:12

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12 Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them and be clean? And he turned and went away in a rage.


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Av Henry MacLagan

Verse 12. For the natural man imagines that natural knowledges and outward righteousness, derived from their application, under the influence of the worldly love of knowledge, are superior to spiritual truths, and will effect purification. And hence he is averted from spiritual truth by the vehemence of self-love.