Naaman the Leper

..Doctors are magnanimous as long as they remain poor.
..Once they charge money they become eyesore.

[ Are health care providers God incarnate ?
A person who sells mobile data (Jio) can be a billionaire and we are proud. Another who supplies goods ( Jeff Bezos) can be the richest person we don’t mind. Yet when it comes to sick care, you should be magnanimous enough to remain poor. Why ?
Doesn’t it speak of a double standard of our society ? ]

The story of Naaman the leper.
( 2 Kings 5 : the Old Testament.)

Gehazi is a figure found in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. He was a servant of the prophet Elisha, who could heal leprosy.
( So this incident is older than the time of Jesus )

According to the Old Testament, Naaman was a great commander of the army of Syria and was held in favor because of the victories that God brought him. Yet Naaman was a LEPER.

He had a servant girl from Israel who said that a prophet in Israel would be able to heal him. So Naaman after much persuasion finally visited Elisha, the prophet and he was healed.

A servant of Elisha, #Gehazi thought that such a wealthy client who was cured of such a incurable disease yet had not given any offerings in the name of God, ran after him and asked for clothing and silver for visitors. …

As the Old Testament, Kings-2 runs in its mystic style..
…”And the leprosy from Naaman fell on Gehazi and would remain in his DESCENDANTS.”

What I presume Gehazi must be attending all the leprosy patients who always surrounded the prophet and might have contracted the disease in the process. Also he was greedy enough to ask for money from such people who were getting cured.

But our society doesn’t recognize the risks that Gehazi was exposed day in and day out to one of the most incurable disease of that time and that he should be compensated adequately for such risks. Rather he should be punished for the greed of taking gifts from a person wealthy enough who can afford to pay and who is cured of such a dreadful condition.