ignation,

5:13. His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet
had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how
much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be
clean?

5:14. Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according
to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the
flesh of a little child: and he was made clean.

5:15. And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and
stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in
all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a
blessing of thy servant.

A blessing... a present.

5:16. But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will
receive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.

5:17. And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me,
thy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy
servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods,
but to the Lord.

5:18. But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for
thy servant; when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship
there, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down in the temple of Remmon,
when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me, thy
servant, for this thing.

5:19. And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the
spring time of the earth.

Go in peace... What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward
conformity to an idolatrous worship; but only a service which by his
office he owed to his master: who on all public occasions leaned on him:
so that his bowing down when his master bowed himself down was not in
effect adoring the idols: nor was it so understood by the standers by,
since he publicly professed himself a worshipper of the only true and
living God, but it was no more than doing a civil office to the king his
master, whose leaning upon him obliged him to bow at the same time that
he bowed.

5:20. But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath
spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he
brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of
him.

5:21. And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running after
him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all well?

5:22. And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: