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2 Kings 5:13

And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much rather then, when he says to you, Wash, and be clean?

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Father; a title given to masters, kings The Romans senators were styled, "conscript fathers "and Homer calls kings "the fathers and shepherds of the people. "See Genesis xlv. 8. (Calmet) Masters may often derive benefit from the observations of their servants, as Naaman did repeatedly, ver. 2. This may serve to correct their pride. (Haydock) Clean. The patient ought not to prescribe rules to his physician. (Menochius) How justly might these words be addressed to delicate penitents! (Haydock)

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