Patristic A.D. 735
“For Naaman, which means beautiful, represents the Gentile people, who is ordered to be washed seven times, because that baptism saves which the seven-fold Spirit renews. His flesh after washing began to appear as a child’s, because grace like a mother begets all to one childhood, or because he is conformed to Christ, of whom it is said, Unto us a Child is born. (Isa. 9:6.)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:22-27
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗