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i.e. A god, a divine person, glorious, and full of majesty and splendour, exceeding not only mortal men, but common ghosts. She useth the plural number,
gods, either after the manner of the Hebrew language, which commonly useth that word of one person; or after the language and custom of the heathens. But the whole coherence shows that it was but one. For Saul desired but one, 1Sa_28:11, and he inquires and the woman answers only of one, 1Sa_28:14. Ascending out of the earth, as if it came from the place of the dead.