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When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. Seek of pythons. That is, people pretending to tell future things by a prophesying spirit.—Should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead? Here is signified, that it is to God we should pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of fortune-tellers dead in sin) for the health of the living. Challoner.—Mutter. Lit. “use a shrill note,” strident. Bible.—so Horace, (1 Sat. viii.) says—
Umbræ cum sagana resonarent triste et acutum.
—Should. Make this reply: Should, and so forth
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