Sickness
The effect of sin's entrance. Healed by the Lord Jesus, as
Isaiah foretold, "Himself took our infirmities and bore our
sicknesses" (Matthew 8:17; Isaiah 53:4; 1 Peter 2:24). His
bearing our guilt in His manhood, assumed with all its
infirmities, was the ground of His sympathetically feeling for
and relieving our sickness by His miraculous powe...
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di-zez', di-zez'-iz (chalah, choli; nosos): Israel, from its
position and physical conditions, ought to be a healthy
country. That it is not so depends on the unsanitary
conditions in which the people live and the absence of any
attempts to check the introduction or development of zymotic
diseases. The number of marshes or pools is fairly...
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sik, sik'-nes (chalah (Gen 48:1, etc.), choli (Dt 28:61,
etc.), tachalu' (Dt 29:21, etc.), machalah (Ex 23:25, etc.),
daweh (Lev 15:33, etc.), 'anash (2 Sam 12:15, etc.);
astheneo (Mt 10:8, etc.;. compare 2 Macc 9:22), [@kakos
echon (Lk 7:2), kakos echontas (Mt 4:24, etc.), arrhostos
(Sirach 7:35; Mt 14:14, etc.), arrhostema (Sirach 10:10,
et...
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And when he had called unto [him] his twelve disciples, he
gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to cast them out,
and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease....
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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's
tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off
with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make
an end of me....
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In New Testament times beggars were usually the blind, maimed, or diseased. Thus blind Bartimeus "sat by the highway side begging" (Mark 10:46). The impotent man "was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple" (Acts 3:2). The beggar Lazarus, who was diseased, ...
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EXPECTATlON OF SUPERNATURAL POWER TO HEAL BY A REPRESENTATIVE
OF GOD
Dr. Trumbull has called attention to a very interesting situation which he discovered in the Orient. He says:
"Another fact that sheds light upon the work of JESUS and His disciples in their ministry of healing, is the universal expectation, in the East, of the cure of disease ...
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PREVALENCE OF SICKNESS IN PALESTINE IN CHRIST'S DAY AND IN MODERN TIMES
The Gospel records tell of the presence of a multitude of sick people in the land, and how these were brought in great numbers to JESUS to be healed. "And at even . . . they brought unto him all that were diseased . . . and all the city was gathered at the door. And he healed ...
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PROMISES OF HEALTH through obedience to the law. Through their wilderness experiences and after they were in the Land of Promise, the Hebrew families could look to the promise GOD originally gave to them about health for their bodies:
If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, an...
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WHAT OLD TESTAMENT JEWS DID IN TIME OF SICKNESS
Ordinarily, the ancient Hebrews did not go to physicians when they were sick. There are surprisingly few references to physicians in Old Testament days. Job mentions the existence of such when he says, "Ye are all physicians of no value" (Job 13:4). King Asa was criticized by the sacred writer who sa...
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