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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: respect that the prophet permitted Naaman, a mighty man of
valour, and an honourable cavalier of Syria, to follow his master
into the house of Rimmon, a false god, or idol, to whom he had
vowed service, and to bow down when the king was leaning upon his
hand. But neither was this answer satisfactory to me, both
because there was an unco difference between an anointed King of
Syria and our Spanish colonel, whom I could have blown away like
the peeling of an ingan, and chiefly because I could not find the
thing was required of me by any of the articles of war; neither
was I proffered any consideration, either in perquisite or pay,
for the wrong I might thereby do to my conscience."
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