And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Messenger. Eliseus supports the dignity of God's envoy, and shows the general that his cure was to be attributed, not to the presence of the prophet, but to the will and goodness of God.