Anf-03 iv.xi.lvii Pg 10
Acts viii. 9; xiii. 8.
but the blindness which struck (them) was no enchanter’s trick. What novelty is there in the effort of an unclean spirit to counterfeit the truth? At this very time, even, the heretical dupes of this same Simon (Magus) are so much elated by the extravagant pretensions of their art, that they undertake to bring up from Hades the souls of the prophets themselves. And I suppose that they can do so under cover of a lying wonder. For, indeed, it was no less than this that was anciently permitted to the Pythonic (or ventriloquistic) spirit1825 1825 See above in ch. xxviii. p. 209, supra.
—even to represent the soul of Samuel, when Saul consulted the dead, after (losing the living) God.1826 1826 1 Sam. xxviii. 6–16.
God forbid, however, that we should suppose that the soul of any saint, much less of a prophet, can be dragged out of (its resting-place in Hades) by a demon. We know that “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light”1827 1827
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (8) - :6; 9:36 Joh 1:41
