Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? — this foreigner (ho allogenēs, the one of another race): the Samaritan who returns is the foreigner, the one outside the covenant community by race and religion. The pattern of Elijah and the Zarephath widow, Elisha and Naaman the Syrian continues: the outsider who responds while the insiders do not.

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