Does God
LITERALLY Send Evil Spirits?
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was
upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was
refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. (1 Samuel
16:23; KJV)
Whenever God allowed the evil spirit to afflict Saul,
David would play the harp, Saul would be relieved of his torment, and the evil
spirit would depart. (v. 23; The VOICE)
Commentary: “It only remains to say that there is
need of no other agency from God than the permissive.* Satan never needs to be
sent on such a mission; it is only requisite that the Lord suffer him to go.
Such permission is one feature in that awful retribution which God must send
upon apostate souls. They having chosen sin and rebellion rather than
obedience, and, consequently, evil rather than good, God leaves them to their
own guilty choice, to ‘eat the fruit of their own way, and to be filled with
their own devices.’”1
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Notes
1. Cowles,
Henry Hebrew History from the Death of Moses to the Close of the Scripture
Narrative (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1875), p. 139
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