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22 6 MODERN SMRITISM
not these things written for our instruction? And
is there one single soul who reads these lines so blind
as not to see the parallel,
or so deaf as not to hear
the warning ?
The resultt, of course, was many stripes and the
prison at Philippi; not forgetting the loosing of all
the prisoners' chains, and the conversion of the
jailer, and all his house, the first European men who
were converted to the new faith.
To continue our list. "But for. . .sorcerers. . .
their part
shall be in the lake that burneth with
fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Rev. xxi. 8.
"Without are dogs, and sorcerers."- Rev. xxii. 15.
The Witch of Endor
The episode of the witch of Endor must also be
considered. It is recorded in i Sam. xxviii. that
Samuel had been dead five years.
The witch of Endor in a cave on the north side of
Little Hermon, in the great plain of Esdraelon, was
what would now be called a medium accustomed
to necromancy, a practice not only forbidden by
God, but also by Saul himself;* so that this woman
was more or less in hiding.
Saul came and asked for the materialisation of
Samuel. At first the form was only seen by the
medium; but when the great mantle it wore was
described to Saul, he knew at once who it was, because
he had seized this very robe years before and
torn it on that memorable day, when Samuel de-
*
And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and
the wizards, out of the land." I Sam. xxviii. 3.