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Sickness and Healing in Jesus Sirach

In Bible times, many people were suspicious of doctors. We hear another message from the Jewish scholar Jesus Sirach. For him, sickness is a consequence of a person’s sin against his creator, but the sick person still has to go to a doctor for healing.

Sirach 38

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Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 38

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