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2Ki_5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart [with thee], when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
Ver. 26. Went not mine heart with thee?] Was not all the transaction revealed as really and clearly unto me, as if I had been there bodily present?
Is it a time to receive money?] Giving is kind, and taking is courteous: and both may at some times and in some cases be done without sin. There is much use of godly discretion, doubtless, in directing us when to open, when to shut our hands.
And oliveyards and vineyards?] The purchase of all which Gehazi was now busily meditating with his two talents.