Dąbek, Tomasz Maria (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Krakowie, 1999)
After the disobedience of the first people if fell to their lot to live in the state of illness and perplexity and split between people and the whole creation which expects to be redeemed together with people (Rm 8.20-22) St. Paul writes about the mystery of wickedness (μυστήριον τής άνομίας – 2 Th 2,7). In the Old Testament God is a physician for his people (Ex 15,26; Dt 32,39; Ps 6,3; 30,3; 41,5; The Bible often uses the following parallels; sin - disease, sickness, death, way to death. 60,4; 103,1-3; 107,20; 147,3; Is 19,22; 57,18f; Jr 30,17; 33,6; Hos 5,13; 6,1; 11,2; Pr 20,30). This is a preparation for the Jesus' function of physician (Is 53,4; Mt 8,17) for the sickness of body and soul (Mt 9,12n; Mk 2,17; Lc 5,3 If; Ac 10,38; 1 P 2,24). He changes our sick body into the new body – spiritual one σωμα πνευματικόν – 1 Co 15,44) and the sick people into the new people through baptism and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
