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Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn`t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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A Spiritual Sickness
Commentators agree that Jeremiah is using a parable. The famous 'balm of Gilead' and its physicians are metaphors for God's spiritual remedies for Israel's sin. The 'physicians' were the prophets and priests, and the 'balm' was God's law, righteousness, and the call to repentance. The nation was spiritually sick, yet the cure was readily available.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
No physician there—that is, in Gilead. Balm used to grow in Israel for the healing of the nations; her priests and prophets were the physici…
19th Century
Anglican
Is there no balm in Gilead...? —The resinous gums of Gilead, identified by some naturalists with those of the terebinth, …
Baptist
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?
No; there is none. There is balm in Christ, there is a Physician who once …
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet implies in these words that the slaughter of the people would be so fatal that they would seek remedies in vain; as if he had said that…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Is there no balm in Gilead? &c.] Which was famous for it; see (Genesis 37:25), or rather turpentine or rosin,…
Finally, they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, everything that is against us appears formidable. As salvati…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, Jeremiah speaks of a punishment similar to the one mentioned above.
First, he speaks of the Lord's judgment regarding the af…
