2 Kings 5:15 (WEB)
He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
Fathers and councils · 2
Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“…God that He Himself would raise the dead, and Elisha saying to Naaman, on cleansing him from the leprosy, ‘that thou mayest know that there is a God in Israel,’ and Samuel too in the days of the harvest praying to God to grant rain, and the Apostles saying that not in their own power they did miracles but in the…” — editor's note: 2 Kings v. 8, 15.
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Gregory the Great
“We have received with the charity that was due to the bearer of these presents, our common son the deacon Isidore, who brought to us the benediction of Saint Mark the evangelist.” — editor's note: Benedictionem, with reference to the present of sweet wood that had been sent. Cf. 2 Kings v. 15, “Take a blessing of thy servant.”
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