There are not found that returned
Or it do not appear, that any have returned:
to give glory to God;
for inasmuch as they did not return to give thanks to Christ, and
acknowledge him the author of their cure and cleansing they did
not give glory to God:
save this stranger;
for so the Samaritans were reckoned by the Jews, even as the
Gentile, aliens from the commonwealth, of Israel, and strangers
to the covenants of promise. Christ speaks in the language and
dialect of the nation, and yet we find sometimes, that,
(ytwk) , "a Cuthite", or a
Samaritan, is distinguished from, (yrkn) , "a stranger", Or a Gentile: they might set up
their beasts in the inns of the Samaritans, but not in the inns
of "strangers"; and a man might let out his bath to a Samaritan,
but not to a "stranger" F2; but this must be understood of them
in times past, before they were found out to be idolaters; when,
as Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel says F3, they were as Israelites
in all things, and kept the law and the precepts of it, and even
more exactly than the Israelites themselves did F4; but
afterwards a Samaritan was reckoned a Gentile, and so he was in
the times of Christ; and therefore he calls a Samaritan a
stranger: that tradition of the Jews, requires some notice and
consideration F5; all are defiled
``with leprosies, except (Myrknh) , "strangers", and the proselyte of the gate.''And yet here is a stranger among the Jews, and reckoned unclean, on account of leprosy, and sent with them to show himself to the priest.