Bible Encyclopedia: Disease: Figurative

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'Physicians of no Value'
... As Hosea puts it in figurative fashion, Ephraim's discovery of his 'sickness' sent
him ... of the way, we have become conscious of a symptom, not of the disease. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/physicians of no value.htm

An Unalterable Law
... EVERYWHERE under the old figurative dispensation, blood was sure to greet your eyes ...
moment that a sinner believes in Jesus; not as though a disease were healed ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 60 1914/an unalterable law.htm

Of the Section Where it is Recorded, that Being Moved with ...
... the kingdom of the gospel, [961] and healing every sickness and every disease. ... them
with a literal import, and others of them with a figurative, although the ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter xxx of the section where.htm

Since These Things are So, Because it were Too Long to Treat ...
... willeth one thing to be understood of another, which kind of figurative either sayings ...
a sick man in peril of his life with a grievous disease, whose strength ...
/.../augustine/against lying/section 35 since these things.htm

Paul's Reasons for Temperance
... is like the growths on a tree, which are not fruit, but products of disease. ... light
to which he had likened it, and is backing up his figurative statement as to ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/pauls reasons for temperance.htm

Spiritual Epileptics.
... but about the passage before us, let us, adopting a figurative interpretation, consider ...
on account of this gave the name of lunacy to the disease epilepsy, you ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/4 spiritual epileptics.htm

Accommodation of the Two Extreme Theories.
... On the one hand, we may ascribe the origin of the disease to natural ... doctrine (borrowed
from the circle of popular ideas) merely as a figurative covering for ...
/.../section 103 accommodation of the.htm

Whether Christ Suffered in a Suitable Place?
... Objection 3: Further, the medicine should correspond with the disease. ... for the offering
of sacrifices to Himself: and these figurative sacrifices foreshadowed ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ suffered in a.htm

Matt. v. 1, 2
... and fountain of all wickedness, He, preparing a remedy suitable to the disease,
laid this ... Some [601] say a figurative earth, but it is not this, for nowhere in ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xv matt v 1.htm

The Death and the Raising of Lazarus - the Question of Miracles ...
... to abolish death, but in Whose Presence the continuance of disease and death ... seeking
to stone' Him, He replied by telling them, in figurative language, that we ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxi the death and.htm

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Psalm 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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Jeremiah 30:12
For thus said the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
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Subtopics

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