THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Notes on Third Book of Kings (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))

22:22 Go forth, and do so: This was not a command, but a permission: for God never ordaineth lies; though he often permitteth the lying spirit to deceive those who love not the truth. 2 Thess. 2.10. And in this sense it is said in the following verse, The Lord hath given a lying spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets.

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