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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 16:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Saul’s servants said unto him, etc.] 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.
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