Spiritual Experiences # 2640
2640. As for the "files" 1 there spoken of, they are wide drills (borar 2 ) with which they bore people through, and indeed from the front through the chest. These are three kinds of tools that the hellish spirits seem to themselves to be using with the greatest pleasure, by whom David was taught when he came into his cruel state - which shows what he had been like.
As for his Psalms, he did not speak the least word, but the spirit of the Lord through him, because he was king, and that kind of king. But whatever in them concerned the Messiah and His Kingdom, David had applied to himself. For such as a person's title is, so he perceives himself.
Notas de rodapé:
1. No doubt referring to the "saws," by which they were tortured-not, as NKJV has it, "put to work with saws."
2. Swedish for "bores."
