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XXXIV.
“And4854
| 4854 This and the next fragment first appeared
in the Benedictine edition reprinted at Venice, 1734. They were taken
from a ms. Catena on
the book of Kings in the Coislin Collection. | dipped
himself,” says [the Scripture], “seven times in
Jordan.”4855
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
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