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8:22 no balm in Gilead. Gilead was known for its medicinal products (46:11).
no physician . . . restored. For the healing metaphor, and false healers, see 8:11. The desire for a physician is an appeal to God as such; He will come at the right time in the Person of Christ, the Great Physician (30:17; cf. Luke 4:18, 19).