2639. [As to what] "knives of iron" ¹ are, spoken of in the same passage, 2 Sam. 12:31, by them are meant tools that similar hellish spirits also in the same place use by fantasy, the knives being wide like that of executioners; and they do not amputate or kill the person, but open up the belly and pull out the intestines, using the wide iron knife to take them out and twist them around, pulling them out until every piece of intestine has been extracted.

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