2 Kings 5:10 (WEB)
Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”
Fathers and councils · 2
Ambrose of Milan
“He changes leprosy for cleanness, drought for rain, famine for plenty.” — editor's note: 2 [4] Kings v. 10.
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Tertullian
“If, however, the Creator’s prophet Elisha cleansed Naaman the Syrian alone, to the exclusion of so many lepers in Israel, this fact contributes nothing to the distinction of Christ, as if he were in this way the better one for cleansing this Israelite leper, although a stranger to…” — editor's note: Compare 2 Kings v. 9–14 with Luke iv. 27.
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