4 Regum 1:6

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6 At illi responderunt ei : Vir occurrit nobis, et dixit ad nos : Ite, et revertimini ad regem, qui misit vos, et dicetis ei : Hæc dicit Dominus : Numquid, quia non erat Deus in Israël, mittis ut consulatur Beelzebub Deus Accaron ? Idcirco de lectulo, super quem ascendisti, non descendes, sed morte morieris.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 6. And thence he perceives that it is opposed to his own falsities, which falsities appertain to the doctrine of faith without charity, while Divine Truth from the Word teaches that salvation ought to be sought for in the genuine good and truth of the Word, and not in the extreme evils and falsities of faith alone which is barren and desolate, the latter course inevitably producing the conjunction of falsity with evil and consequently spiritual death or vastation as to the good and the true.