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Originally Posted by zeek

On a number of occasions when Lee had personal problems, he went to Watchman Nee for help. In one story Nee and Lee both blame themselves because Lee's wife thought she was going to die following an operation for which she was hospitalized. The moment Lee repented for his "inadequate consecration and in my love for the world", the enemy left his wife, and "the Lord gave her peace. " It's an odd story especially if one steps back from Lee's supernaturalist assumptions. Apparently, Lee's wife was delusional and was not actually going to die. Nee and Lee both thinking that they have sinned and caused the delusion. In the parlance of our time it was "all about them." In a more mundane reading of the facts, one might suppose that there was some kind of marital problem between Mr. and Mrs. Lee. Perhaps when he expressed his contrite feelings, she felt better. Of course, that would relegate the story to a domestic problem between to ordinary people in China. However, as we learn from Witness Lee, it was far more momentous than that.

Does any one have information about the death of Lee's first wife?

It has long been my suspicion, that the leverage which Lee's sons Timothy and Phillip held over their father, was related to the passing of their mother.