 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 406 sider
...and glorious effect frequently ascribed to the virtue of the Saviour's cross. The prophet therefore asks, " Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no physician there ? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered ?" Is not the balm which grows... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - 1832 - 114 sider
...read of sickness. But, sin The sickness of the soul, is what Jeremiah the prophet laments, when he asks, " Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" Jesus is the all-powerful physician of souls; he can give the healing balm which will cleanse them... | |
 | John Watson - 1856 - 246 sider
...have devoted some attention to it ; and the seers of Palestine may have had some pretensions to skill in the cure of diseases as a part of their divine...But the Babylonians, as we learn from Herodotus,* were destitute of physicians, and in the custom of exposing their sick in the market-place, in order... | |
 | 1856 - 654 sider
...Israel had not been healed, neither bound, nor mollified with ointment. And to the same purpose Messiah asks, " Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there V Why, then, is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered ?" Anciently, then, wounds and... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1868 - 592 sider
...that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." BALM OF GILEAD. — Jeremiah asks, " Is there no balm in Gilead ? is there no physician there ? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" What is this balm of Gilead?... | |
 | Maria Wright - 1872 - 418 sider
...bearing "spicery, and balm, and myrrh," going to carry it down to Egypt. In Jeremiah viii. 22 the prophet asks, " Is there no balm in Gilead ? is there no physician there ? why, then, is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered ? " Again he says (chap. xlvi.... | |
 | James Large - 1879 - 504 sider
...amiss to dwell a few moments. The prophet, passionately deploring the miseries and sins of his people, asks, "Is there no Balm in Gilead? Is there no PHYSICIAN there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" It may be well just to note that... | |
 | Alfred Charles Garratt - 1884 - 262 sider
...pretensions to skill in curing diseases as a part of their divine calling. Job speaks of his counsellors as ' physicians of no value,' and Moses, of the preparation...But the Babylonians, as we learn from Herodotus,* were destitute of physicians," as were also the kings of Persia, only as they obtained them from Greece... | |
 | 1904 - 1122 sider
...of fees and penalties for malpractice. Physicians are mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Jeremiah asks : "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there ?" The public have a right to know Am. St. Rep., Vol. 98—47 that those holding themselves out as... | |
 | 1904 - 1060 sider
...of fees, and penalties for malpractice. Physicians are mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Jeremiah asks, "Is there no balm In Gilead? Is there no physician there?" The public have a right to know that those holding themselves out as members of that ancient and honorable... | |
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Elam, there are found (sections 215-225) regulations of the medical profession, fixing a scale of fees and penalties for malpractice. Physicians are mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Jeremiah asks, " Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no... 
