cease to be amazed, then, when something of God appears in human beings that transcends their merits and habits, since perhaps God wishes that such an appearance occur in order to signify something. 1,3. If there is some question about the fact, however, that Saul, who had first received a spirit of prophecy, was later choked by an evil spirit that attacked him,18 there is nothing here to be astonished at either. For the former resulted from a plan to convey a meaning, while the latter represented