Luca 4:27

27 Ed al tempo del profeta Eliseo vi erano molti lebbrosi in Israele; e pur niun di loro fu mondato; ma Naaman Siro.

Luca 4:27 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 4:27

And many lepers were in Israel
The leprosy was a disease very common among the Jews; hence those laws concerning it in ( Leviticus 13:1-14:57 ) and it seems by this account, that it was very prevalent,

in the time of Eliseus the prophet;
that is, the prophet Elisha; who, by the Septuagint, in 1Ki 19:16
and, in other places, is called "Elisaie": and none of them was cleansed; from their leprosy, by any direction of the prophet,

saving Naaman, the Syrian:
or but Naaman, who was not an Israelite, but a Syrian: he was cleansed and cured of his leprosy, being ordered by Elisha to dip himself seven times in Jordan, which he did, and was healed, ( 2 Kings 5:14 ) .

Luca 4:27 In-Context

25 Io vi dico in verità, che a’ dì di Elia, quando il cielo fu serrato tre anni e sei mesi, talchè vi fu gran fame in tutto il paese, vi erano molte vedove in Israele;

26 e pure a niuna d’esse fu mandato Elia; anzi ad una donna vedova in Sarepta di Sidon.

27 Ed al tempo del profeta Eliseo vi erano molti lebbrosi in Israele; e pur niun di loro fu mondato; ma Naaman Siro.

28 E tutti furono ripieni d’ira nella sinagoga, udendo queste cose.

29 E levatisi, lo cacciarono della città, e lo menarono fino al margine della sommità del monte, sopra il quale la lor città era edificata, per traboccarlo giù.