Disease, wound, and healing imagery uses sickness, bruises, sores, and healing to describe sin, judgment, grief, chastening, forgiveness, restoration, and the saving work of God.
Disease, wound, and healing imagery uses sickness, bruises, sores, and healing to describe sin, judgment, grief, chastening, forgiveness, restoration, and the saving work of God.
A biblical affliction-and-restoration motif in which bodily sickness, wounds, or healing represent moral corruption, covenant judgment, repentance, divine restoration, or redemptive suffering.
These examples show how Disease, Wound, and Healing Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
I am the LORD that healeth thee
Healing language identifies the LORD as the covenant healer in contrast with Egypt’s plagues.
I wound, and I heal
Wound and healing imagery declares God’s sovereign power both to judge and to restore.
My wounds stink and are corrupt
The psalmist uses bodily wound language to express the heavy effects of sin and chastening.
heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee
Healing moves beyond bodily recovery to forgiveness and restoration of the person before God.
wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores
National rebellion is pictured as a diseased body with untreated wounds from head to foot.
with his stripes we are healed
Healing imagery is bound to the Servant’s redemptive suffering and substitutionary wounds.
thy bruise is incurable... I will restore health unto thee
Incurable wound imagery heightens judgment before God promises restoration by grace.
he hath torn, and he will heal us
The call to return uses wound and healing language for repentant restoration after divine discipline.
the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings
Healing imagery expresses eschatological restoration for those who fear the LORD.
by whose stripes ye were healed
Peter applies wound-healing imagery to Christ’s suffering and the believer’s return to the Shepherd.
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