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What Does Lame Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
What does lame mean in the Bible?
The lame: the will and moving power that could not carry itself forward, now able to walk.
Esoteric lens · Matthew 11:5
Where lame appears in the Bible
Matthew 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
2 Samuel 4:4
Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
Acts 3:2
A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 26:7
Christian Psychology
Truth cannot walk on a mind divided against itself. When a thought of love is carried by one who still believes in separation, it limps, because the words are borrowed while the belief beneath them remains fear. The teaching is sound; the teacher is uncertain, and so it cannot bear him anywhere.
The correction is to let the mind be made whole before it speaks of wholeness. A thought only carries a mind as far as that mind has accepted it, and love repeated without conviction stumbles at the first step. What heals is not better words but a single loyalty, so that what is said and what is believed at last move together.
- Lame legs: the mind split between fear and love, so that even a true thought it carries cannot walk straight
- Parable: a teaching of love the mind repeats without yet believing, sound in itself but unsupported by the one who speaks it
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Esoteric · Matthew 11:5
Esoteric
Each figure here is a faculty of the one person coming awake as the inner light rises. The blind are the powers of sight that could not perceive the life within and now open; the lame are the will that could not carry itself forward and now walks. The lepers are the nature spotted with corruption made clean, and the deaf are the inner ear, shut to the higher voice, now unstopped. The dead are the deadened regions of the self quickened to life, and the poor are the emptied, destitute part of a person into which the good news of its own awakening is spoken. One consciousness is being restored across every function it had lost.
- The blind: the powers of sight in a person that could not perceive the inner life, now opened.
- The lame: the will and moving power that could not carry itself forward, now able to walk.
- The lepers: the nature spotted with corruption, now made clean.
- The deaf: the inner ear shut to the higher voice, now unstopped.
- The dead: the deadened regions of the self, now quickened back to life.
- The poor: the emptied, destitute part of a person into which the news of its own awakening is spoken.
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Commentaries on lame
Swedenborg (1887) · lame
LAME. That the }. s. those who are in good not genuine, because in ignorance of truth. A. E. 455,518.
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