Sickness and plague imagery uses fever, wasting disease, pestilence, physician language, or healed sickness to picture mortality, judgment, mercy, repentance, or divine visitation.
Sickness and plague imagery uses fever, wasting disease, pestilence, physician language, or healed sickness to picture mortality, judgment, mercy, repentance, or divine visitation.
A disease-and-visitation motif in which sickness, fever, plague, pestilence, wasting illness, physician imagery, or healed disease signifies literal affliction, covenant judgment, mortality, spiritual need, messianic healing, or divine mercy.
These examples show how Sickness, Fever, Plague, and Divine-Visitation Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
consumption, and the burning ague
Covenant curse is expressed through wasting disease and fever.
with a consumption, and with a fever
Sickness language appears as covenant-curse visitation.
the LORD sent a pestilence
Pestilence becomes a severe divine judgment after David's sin.
there is no soundness in my flesh
Bodily sickness pictures the weight of sin and divine displeasure.
noisome pestilence... pestilence that walketh in darkness
Plague imagery heightens the promise of refuge in God.
is there no physician there?
Physician language laments the lack of healing for Zion.
sick of a fever... the fever left her
Jesus' healing authority reaches ordinary bodily sickness.
They that be whole need not a physician
Jesus uses physician imagery for sinners needing mercy.
he rebuked the fever
The fever is removed under Jesus' authoritative word.
This sickness is not unto death
Lazarus' sickness becomes the setting for the glory of God.
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