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Donald Gee was an English theologian who helped the A/G's author much of their fundamentals. When the abuses of the "Healing Revivals" came to his attention he wrote a booklet with his thoughts about divine healing. It wasn't too popular in 1952 but it is a very good treatment of the subject of divine healing. This book has been out of print for a very long time. One of my professors made me a photocopy of it and I'm going to transcribe it into this forum for everyone to read. I believe you will be blessed by this book. Trophimus I Left Sick Our Problems With Divine Healing Forward: This Boooklet is written by one who believes in Divine healing for others who believe in Divine healing. It is dedicated to that large number of men and women all over the world who have come to the author with their personal problems concerning Divine healing. An increasingly strong desire has been expressed that some of the things said in intimate conversations might be published in printed form. This booklet is the result. It is published with diffidence, but with the earnest hope that it may be of help to good and honest hearts. The glory of God through the truth, as the writer has been given to see the truth, is the only ultimate object. “Beloved, I with above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” Donald Gee “Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.” (2 Tim. 4:20) Trophimus was an Ephesian Christian who became one of the missionary team that accompanied Paul during his last journeys. Most probably he was converted during that notable period when “all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks and God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them” (Acts 19:10-12) When Paul eventually left for Macedonia and Greece, Trophimus and Tychicus, another Asian, accompanied him. They returned with the apostle by way of Troas, where Tropimus must have been present on that memorable Sunday night at the breaking of bread service when Eutychus fell down from the third loft, and was taken up for dead but restored alive by the apostle. Not many days later, while the ship stopped at Miletus (or Miletum), Paul called the elders of the Church at Ephesus to meet him there, and Trophimus might quite likely have been in his home-town. But he journeyed on with the determined apostle all the way to Jerusalem, and it was the presence of Trophimus with Paul in the streets of the city that gave credence to the rumour that Paul had polluted the temple by taking into it his gentile companion. (Acts 21:29) So Trophimus unwittingly became the excuse for the mob that led to Paul’s arrest, with such grave consequences. It seems unlikely that Trophimus accompanied Paul on the voyage to Rome. It must have been on a later and final journey, during Paul’s brief period of liberty between writing his first and second letters to Timothy, that he left Trophimus at Miletum sick. These details given in the book of Acts are interesting. For our present purpose they possess significance in connection with Divine healing because they prove that Trophimus had seen quite often an outstanding ministry of the miraculous and been intimately associated with the Christian missionary who exercised it with notable success and pentecostal power. Notwithstanding all that, Paul had left Trophimus at Miletum sick. Why? He would be bold who would suggest that Paul must have lost his power to heal the sick in the Name of the Lord Jesus: or that Paul had forfeited the gift and calling so long and conspicuously enjoyed: or that Paul was backslidden. We have no evidence at all to that effect, for, to the contrary, while stranded in Melita on the voyage to Rome, Paul had exercised the gifts of healing with great power and freedom. (Acts 28:8-9) Pages 7&8

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