Proverbs 14:30a
A sound heart is the life of the flesh (body).
Long before the disruptive epistemological fiction of Cartesianism with is subject-object dualism the ancient wisdom affirmed a unitary holistic cosmology as revealed in this powerful prescriptive statement.
The ancient Hebrew wisdom teachers knew the value of a 'sound' (or marpe' meaning health, healing, or cure) heart. Interestingly, the word for heart is leb in Hebrew and Kardia in Greek. This word has reference to the inner person and the attributes of the leb such as mind, memory, determination (of will) conscience, emotions or affect.
A sound heart is life to the body. In other words a healthy (leb) inner person mediates that inner tranquility into the body. Marpe' includes the attitudinal matrix of positive profit, that which is refreshing or restorative, deliverance, remedy, and gentleness.
The new sciences of psychoneuroimmunology, neurocardiology and psychosomatic medicine etc..., are reaffirming the timeless wisdom of the ancient ways. A sound heart can be had by filling the inner person with the sound (healthy) wisdom found in the Biblical records.
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