Verse 14
14. What form is he of He uses the singular, תארו , his form, though the witch had spoken in the plural of gods. But having seen the image of the mantled prophet in his soul, she proceeds to describe it just as it was pictured there.
An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle Saul vividly remembered Samuel in connexion with that mantle the skirt of which he had laid hold of and rent at Gilgal, when the prophet uttered against him the last bitter oracle of judgment, (1 Samuel 15:27;) and a clairvoyant might see his mantled form just as it was imaged in the soul of Saul.
Saul perceived that it was Samuel Observe, it is not said that he saw Samuel. He formed his opinion from the woman’s words. She described the form of Samuel just as he appeared in the memory of Saul an old man wearing a mantle; and from this description, not from actual sight, he knew or understood ( ידע ; Septuagint, εγνω ; Vulgate, intellexit) that it was Samuel. There is no evidence in the whole passage that Samuel was seen by any one except the witch.
He stooped Made obeisance, for he believed that Samuel was there.
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