2791. This also shows how easily the falsities and wicked deeds of souls in the other life are exposed, for the conviction spoken of [2787] so clearly spread to the spirits round about, and to myself, that all considered themselves guilty, and everyone began to wonder whether they were the one. For at the time I had read about Hazael, that he soaked a thick cloth in water and suffocated Ben-Hadad, 2 Kings 8:15.