9324. 'And I will remove sickness from the midst of you' means protection from falsifications of truth and adulterations of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'removing from the midst of you' - when it refers to falsified truths and adulterated forms of good, meant by 'sickness' - as protection, for when the Lord protects someone from them He removes them, 9313, [9316;] and from the meaning of 'sickness' as falsified truth and adulterated good. These are the sicknesses of spiritual life, for spiritual life receives its existence from and is kept in existence by the truths that belong to faith and the forms of good that belong to love. When these are falsified and perverted, a person is ill; and when they are completely rejected in the heart the person is dead spiritually. Regarding 'sicknesses', that they mean such things and correspond to them, see 4958, 5711-5727, 8364, 9031 (end).

'An olive' signifies love and charity, because 'the olive tree' signifies the celestial church, and so 'the olive,' which is its fruit, signifies celestial love, which love is love to the Lord. This is why the oil which was used to anoint all the holy things of the church, signifies the same love. This oil which was called 'the oil of holiness' was produced from olives, and mixed with aromatics, as in Exodus 19:23, 24, and the lamps of the candelabra in the tabernacle were made to burn every evening with olive oil, as in Exodus 27:20 and Leviticus 24:2. 'An olive,' as in Isaiah 17:6, signifies celestial remains.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 886 [1-2])