The Great Physician
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24 (Spoke 20, Cycle 1)
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this
proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in
Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Luke 4:23 (Spoke 20, Cycle 2)
The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Beloved, I
wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy
soul prospereth.
3 John 1:2 (Spoke 20, Cycle 3)
Doctor Luke, whom Paul identified as the beloved physician
(Colossians 4.14), is the only
Gospel writer to record this famous proverb of Jesus. This unique emphasis
accords with one of the primary Resh-theme words governing Spoke 20,
רפא (Ropha), meaning
Physician, from the triliteral root of the same spelling, rapha, meaning
to heal. This then integrates with the course of World History and
the Medical Miracles that marked the Twentieth Century.
This KeyWord manifests in the distribution of the idea of health and healing in the Bible.
Searching the entire KJV for all occurrences of words based on heal, such as heal, healed,
healest, health, and so forth, yields the following
distribution:
The maximum of 33 hits occurs on Spoke 20, governed by the Letter Resh. This peak is
about four times larger than the average.
The Gospel of Luke, with 27 hits, contains the absolute maximum of any book in the Bible.
It is represented by the large blue bar on Spoke 20, since Luke resides on Cycle 2. The peak of
27 hits in Luke is 37% larger than the second greatest concentrations of 17 hits found in Jeremiah
and Matthew.
These results confirm the ancient attribution of the the authorship of the Gospel according to
Luke, the Physician. They also integrate with the Inner Cycle of Genesis, where we find the first
first occurrence of the triliteral root rapha (S# H7495) in
Genesis 20.
The great thematic river running through Proverbs, Luke, and 3 John carries the ideas of
health, long life, and well-being that comes through wisdom, sound doctrine, and
the knowledge of the truth. Thus the little book of 3 John, consisting of a
mere 14 verses, is the only book on Cycle 3 of the KJV to contain the word health,
which figures prominently in its opening verses:
The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Beloved, I
wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy
soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of
the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater
joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
3 John 1ff
The emphasis upon the theme of health and prosperity is further amplified in the
name Gaius (Γαιηϛ)
which is phonetically related to hugies (υγιηϛ), the root of the word translated as health in the verse above. It is the root
of the English hygiene.
There are four verses in the KJV that contain the words health and soul, Psalm 42 (corresponding to
Luke in the Inner Cycle of the Psalms ), Psalm 43, Proverbs 16.24 and 3 John 1.2, both
quoted at the head of the page. The off-Spoke occurrence in Pdsalm 43 prevents this from forming a
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