Anf-01 ix.viii.xxxiv Pg 3
2 Kings v. 14.
It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [it served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions; being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: “Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”4856 4856
Anf-03 v.iv.v.ix Pg 17
Compare 2 Kings v. 9–; 14 with Luke iv. 27.
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 him, whom his own Lord had been unable to cleanse. The cleansing of the Syrian rather3726 3726 Facilius—rather than of Israelites.
was significant throughout the nations of the world3727 3727 Per Nationes. [Bishop Andrewes thus classifies the “Sins of the Nations,” as Tertullian’s idea seems to have suggested: (1) Pride, Amorite; (2) Envy, Hittite; (3) Wrath, Perizzite; (4) Gluttony, Girgashite; (5) Lechery, Hivite; (6) Covetousness, Canaanite; (7) Sloth, Jebusite.]
of their own cleansing in Christ their light,3728 3728
Anf-01 viii.iv.cvi Pg 2
Num. xxiv. 17.
and another Scripture says, ‘Behold a man; the East is His name.’2358 2358
Anf-01 ix.iv.x Pg 12
Num. xxiv. 17.
