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Księga Jeremiasza 8:22
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Izaż nie masz żywice w Galaad? Abo tam żadnego lekarza nie masz? Czemuż tedy córka ludu mojego nie może przydź ku zdrowiu?
Izali niemasz balsamu w Galaad? Izali tam niemasz lekarza? Czemuż tedy nie jest uleczona córka ludu mojego?
Czy nie ma balsamu w Gileadzie? Czy nie ma tam lekarza? Dlaczego więc nie zabliźnia się rana córki mego ludu?
Izali niemasz balsamu w Galaad? Izali tam niemasz lekarza? Czemuż tedy nie jest uleczona córka ludu mojego?
Czy nie ma balsamu w Gileadzie? Czy nie ma tam lekarza? Czemu więc nie jest uleczona córka mojego ludu?
Czy nie ma balsamu w Gileadzie? Czy nie ma tam lekarza? Dlaczego nie zabliźnia się rana córki mojego ludu?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
no balm: Jeremiah 46:11, Jeremiah 51:8, Genesis 37:25, Genesis 43:11
no physician: Matthew 9:11, Matthew 9:12, Luke 5:31, Luke 5:32, Luke 8:43
why: Jeremiah 30:12-17
recovered: Heb. gone up, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6
Reciprocal: Exodus 15:26 - for I am 2 Chronicles 7:14 - heal their land 2 Chronicles 16:12 - physicians Job 13:4 - physicians Psalms 38:5 - My wounds Jeremiah 6:26 - daughter Jeremiah 9:1 - the daughter Jeremiah 14:19 - no healing Jeremiah 30:13 - hast Lamentations 2:13 - who can Ezekiel 27:17 - balm Ezekiel 34:4 - diseased Ezekiel 47:12 - medicine Hosea 11:3 - I healed Hosea 14:4 - heal Mark 5:26 - had suffered Luke 16:20 - full
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Is there no balm in Gilead?.... Which was famous for it; see
Genesis 37:25, or rather turpentine or rosin, a gum which drops from pine trees and the like; since balm or balsam grew on this side Jordan, near Jericho and Engedi, and not beyond Jordan, in the land of Gilead; and rosin is good for healing. Some render it "treacle", but very wrongly, since, as Calvin observes, that is a composition of many things,
Is there no physician there? or surgeon, anyone that heals wounds and bruises; very probably there were many such lived in Gilead, since it was a place where proper medicines were to be got and applied: this may be understood of prophets and teachers, who, in a moral and spiritual sense, are instruments of healing of men, by showing them their evil, calling them to repentance, and directing where to go for healing or pardon of sin; namely, to Christ, the alone physician, and to his precious blood, shed for the remission of sins. Some reference may be had to Elijah, who was of Gilead, and to the school of the prophets there, 1 Kings 17:1. The Targum is,
"Jeremiah the prophet said, perhaps there are no good works in me, that I should supplicate for the house of Israel; should I not desire the doctrine of Elijah the prophet, who was of Gilead, whose words were healing?''
Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? that is, seeing there is balm in Gilead, and a physician there, how comes it to pass that such medicine is not made use of, and such a physician not applied to, that health might be restored? This shows the stupidity, sluggishness, and indolence of the people, and how inexcusable they were, as well as the prophet's great concern for their welfare; the want of means of deliverance, or non-attendance to them, or the failure of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
No physician there - i. e., in Gilead. Balm used to grow in Israel for the healing of the nations. Her priests and prophets were the physicians. Has Israel then no balm for herself? Is there no physician in her who can bind up her wound? Gilead was to Israel what Israel spiritually was to the whole world.
Why then is not the health ... recovered? - Or, âwhy then has no bandage,â or plaster of balsam, âbeen laid upon my people?â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 8:22. Is there no balm in Gilead? — Yes, the most excellent in the world. "Is there no physician there?" Yes, persons well skilled to apply it. "Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" Because ye have not applied to the physician, nor used the balm. Ye die because ye will not use the remedy. But to apply this metaphor: - The Israelites are represented as a man dying through disease; and a disease for the cure of which the balm of Gilead was well known to be a specific, when judiciously applied by a physician. But though there be balm and a physician, the people are not cured; neither their spiritual nor political evils are removed. But what may all this spiritually mean? The people are morally diseased; they have sinned against God, and provoked him to destroy them. They are warned by the prophet to repent and turn to God: they refuse, and sin on. Destruction is come upon them. Might they not have avoided it? Yes. Was it the fault of God? No. Did he not send his prophets with the richest offers of mercy? Did he not give them time, the best instructions, and the most effectual means of returning to him? Has not mercy, the heavenly balm, been ever at hand? And has not GOD, the great Physician, been ever ready to apply it? Yes. Why then are they not converted and healed? Because they would not apply to the Divine Physician, nor receive the only remedy by which they could be spiritually healed. They, then, that sin against the only remedy must perish, because they might have had it, but would not. It is not because there is a deficiency of grace, nor of the means of grace, that men are not saved; but because they either make no use, or a bad use, of them. Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, has tasted death for every man; but few are saved, because they WILL NOT come unto him that they may have life.
In my old MS. Bible the text is rendered thus: -
Whether gumm is not in Galaad? Or a leche is not there? Why than the hid wounde of the daughter of my peple is not alle helid?
How shall they escape who neglect so great a salvation? Reader, lay this to heart; and, while there is time, apply heartily to the great Physician for thy cure.
