the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Clementine Latin Vulgate
3 Regum 16:15
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Dixeruntque servi Saul ad eum: Ecce spiritus Dei malus exagitat te.
Dixeruntque servi Saul ad eum: "Ecce spiritus Dei malus exagitat te.
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Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 16:1 - seeing 1 Samuel 18:10 - the evil spirit
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Saul's servants said unto him,.... His courtiers, who observing him to act in a frantic manner, to be dull and melancholy, timorous, and irresolute, unsteady, divided, and distressed; or his physicians, who were called in to assist him, and remove his disorder from him:
behold, now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee: the disorder was not from any natural cause, or any bodily disease, and therefore out of the reach of physicians to do any service, but was from an evil spirit suffered of God to harass and disturb him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The “evil” or “melancholy” spirit here spoken of was “the Spirit of God,” or “of Jehovah,” as being God’s messenger and minister, sent by Him to execute His righteous purpose upon Saul (see 1 Kings 22:19-22 note).
