human
Is it likely, we ask,
gpt
All which is the old cry of the captain of the host of Syria.
human
Behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper. That is, why need he enjoin any instrument at all? But if he must, he might have enjoined something more suitable.
gpt
Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? In precisely the same spirit we ask still,
human
How can water wash away sin? How can bread and wine be Christ's body and blood? How can the laying on of a man's hand confer the gift of the Holy Spirit? Do not all such assumptions savour of magic rather than of Divine Providence?