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This one, this Samaritan, was twice the outsider: an outcast, both because of his disease, and to the very priests who would examine him. And because of that latter reason, perhaps less inclined to mistake their pronouncement for the whole of his healing. When he saw that he was healed, he turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. No priest sent him back. No law required his return; everything demanded of him,

Once, you were like these lepers at the beginning of this Gospel: your sins excluded you from heaven. Now, however, because Jesus went to...