The difficulties associated with this passage are considerable. On the one hand, it is hard to imagine one of the holy angels being a “lying spirit…

The symbolic vision of Micaiah, which naturally recalls the well-known description in Job 1:6-12 of the dealings of Satan with the Lord Himself, is…

And the Lord said to him, with what ?
&c.] What way and method did he propose, to persuade Ahab to go up to Ramoth? …

The greatest kindness we can do to someone who is going in a dangerous way is to tell him of his danger. To leave the hardened criminal without exc…