“If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.”
Four men with leprosy sit at the entrance of the gate of Samaria — their position at the gate marks their liminal status: neither inside the city (which rejects them) nor entirely outside. Leprosy has separated them from the community.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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