Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Naaman the Syrian

    historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    Naaman · the Syrian

    in the texts

    Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

    The Syrian leper cleansed by Elisha, read typologically as signifying the nations cleansed by Christ.

    But if Elisha, the prophet of the Creator, cleansed the single leper Naaman the Syrian out of so many Israelite lepers, neither does this make for a diversity of Christ, as though in this way the better — in that a stranger cleanses an Israelite leper whom his own lord could not cleanse — the Syrian the more easily cleansed signifying, through the nations, of those who bristled with the seven stai …
    book 4
    Now, even though he premised that there were then many lepers in Israel in the days of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian — surely the number too will not make for a difference of gods, toward the destruction of the Creator remedying one, and the preference of him who cleansed ten.
    book 4

    LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

    Biblical Syrian commander cited to explain a scriptural phrase.

    But Naaman was not great before the Lord, but before his own lord;
    letter 188

    The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

    Syrian foreigner cited as an example of someone not told the Mosaic law was necessary for him.

    Nor did Elisha ever signify to Naaman the Syrian, nor Jonas to the Ninevites, nor Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar, nor the other Prophets to the Tyrians, the Moabites, the Egyptians, to whom they wrote, that it was necessary for them to adopt the Mosaic Law.
    chapter 8