The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.
Bear robbed of her whelps: a mind in raw and open fury, dangerous yet plain to see, a wound the light can still reach because it hides nothing
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 17:12
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
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To take on the sickness of another is not to fall ill but to look past the appearance of it entirely, holding in mind only the wholeness the sufferer has forgotten. The one who heals bears these infirmities by refusing to grant them reality, carrying the memory of what we are until we can carry it ourselves.
This is the miracle undoing the belief in sickness, not by fighting the body but by declining to make its complaints true. What is borne away was never a real burden, only a mistaken idea, lifted the moment a mind agrees to see innocence.
After Sarah has died and Isaac is married, Abraham takes another wife named Keturah. Her name means incense, the sweet smoke that rises up to God. Even in old age, the man God promised would be the father of many nations is still growing a family.
Yet the passage draws a clear line. Abraham gives everything he owns to Isaac, the son of the promise. To the sons of his other wives he gives gifts, and while he is still alive he sends them away from Isaac, eastward, to the land of the east. They are blessed, but they are not the heir. Once again the east is the direction of those who go out from the center of the promise. The line of blessing runs through one son, so that later, through that one line, blessing can come back to all the others.
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