| I Kings 22:19
| And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left:
| He, Micheas, added, (Menochius) not fearing the king's displeasure, who seemed to regard his former denunciation as an effect of his ill-will. Hence he explains his vision more at large. God often conforms to our ideas, and even prejudices. The people were then accustomed to look upon him as a king, environed with his army of good and evil spirits; the one at his right-hand, to execute his designs of mercy, and the other at his left, to execute his judgments. Job (1:6, 12.) speaks in the like manner. We know that God stands in need of no counsellors; (Romans 11:34.) and that the angels of satan have no place in heaven, Isaias 14:12., Apocalypse 12:9., and Jude 6.
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