But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

Ver. 24. And smote Micaiah on the cheek.] In a most disgraceful manner, and in such a presence.

Nihil est audaeius illis

Deprensis, iram atque animos a crimine sumunt. ” - Juvenal.

Here "the prophet was a fool, the spiritual man mad." Hos 9:7

Which way went the Spirit of the Lord?] Or, At what hour went, &c. Zedekiah would be thought to have the monopoly or sole enjoyment of the Spirit, as now the Jesuits would of learning and divinity. Aurelius the Sorbonist, a doctor of their own religion, saith of them, that they are a kind of men which have nothing more than theological arrogancy, but possess nothing less than theological science. a

a Vindiciar., p. 629.

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