“Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.”
Naaman, commander of the Aramean army, is a great man and honored, but he is a leper — the opening establishes a paradox: worldly prominence cannot prevent physical and spiritual defilement. Leprosy (tzara'at) in the biblical sense is not merely medical but covenantal; it marks separation from community and God.
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