And just when the holy Mefres and Mentezufis were jeering at the predictions of Sargon, who said that the heir would not yield to the priests but force them to obedience, the prince had a plan to subject them.
First of all, Sargon and his associates signed and swore to a treaty of ten years with the pharaoh, during which time, according to predictions of priests in Chaldea, evil fates were impending over Egypt.
In the temple of Hator the pharaoh passed quickly through the school of medicine, and listened without great interest to predictions given by astrologers concerning him.
When the astrologer high priest showed him a tablet on which was engraved a map of heaven, he asked, "How often do these predictions come true which ye read in the stars?
But if ye predict from trees, stones, or running water, do those predictions come true also?
As the homeless nation they have wandered throughout this age, in fulfillment of the predictions of their own prophets, among the nations of the earth.
Between these two predictionsconcerning the future, the beginning and the end of this discourse He gives three parables.
Here we have unfailing predictions of what will be when the day breaks and the shadows flee away from Israel.
It is noteworthy that there are no promises in the New Testament which would authorize the Church of God to expect the accomplishment of these predictions as the result of her testimony and activity.
And I could find little to reassure her, for it seemed to me more than likely that Aunt Jeanne's predictions would be fulfilled.
His predictions relate usually to the royal family or country of Sweden, and are repeated from mouth to mouth throughout every province of the kingdom.
It would seem as if the Deity had made predictionsonly that we might understand nothing about them.
It is supposed that they contained not so much predictions of future events, as directions regarding the means by which the wrath of the gods, as revealed by prodigies and calamities, might be appeased.
In the afternoon of that day Jesus sat with his disciples on the Mount of Olives, and looking down upon the city gave a prophecy to his disciples, mingling the predictions of the city's overthrow and of the end of the world (Mark 13.
Men who spoke out of direct fellowship with the Lord, and under inspiration of the Spirit; sometimes, though not always, giving predictions of future events.
Judge Webster lived but a year after his son's entrance upon the practice of his profession; long enough, however, to hear his first argument in court, and to be gratified with the confident predictions of his future success.
But to understand what he said, and what he foresaw, I must explain a little what had been the course of legislation in France on which his predictions were founded.
At the same time another celebrated astrologer and rival of Lilly, George Wharton, also made some predictions about the outcome of the eventful march from Oxford.
But, on the other hand, these predictions were sometimes turned to account by interested friends to warn certain persons of approaching dangers.
The celebrated astrologers, however, were usually astronomers as well, and undoubtedly based many of their predictions on the position and movements of the heavenly bodies.
His offices were sought by persons of all ages for predictions as to their futures, the movements of an enemy, where to find stolen goods, and a host of everyday occurrences.
And fiendlike seemed the form thus screeching forth its predictions from under the grim head-gear; and then darting and disappearing amidst the sea of pikes, cleaving its path of blood!
Then were verified Lord Warwick's predictionsof the faith of Burgundy!
It is not, as some have maintained,[1481] to explain why the judgments of God and the predictions of His prophets were not always fulfilled—though this also becomes clear by the way.
The ancient prophets are gone, but their predictions have been fulfilled in the calamities of the Exile, and God’s Word abides for ever.
This would be credible only upon one condition, that Cyrus and his immediate successors disappointed the predictions of the Second Isaiah and refused to allow the exiles to leave Babylon.
The disappearance of the Scythians did not leave Zephaniah’s predictions of doom without means of fulfilment; nor did the great Reform of 621 remove the necessity of that doom.
Jews expounded the prophets and found this difficulty, that all their predictionshad not been fulfilled.
But, as Kuenen points out,[591] we have yet further evidence for the probability of a Return under Cyrus, in the explicit predictions of the Second Isaiah that Cyrus would be the builder of Jerusalem and the Temple.
How she had been led to utter those predictions she never fully understood--not at the time nor afterwards.
Otherwise, he is good-tempered and obliging, and will tell what will come to pass, and his predictions never have been known to fail.
This is how predictionsare made, but of this more anon.
Boastful and impotent as the declaration of Mr. Hammond now seems, it had a better basis of fact to stand upon than many of the fiery predictions in which Southern statesmen were wont to indulge.
Predictions as to the speedy close of the war had ceased.
The promises of Democratic leaders had failed, their predictions had been falsified, and as a consequence their strength was shattered.
These able writers were prophets of adversity, and the inheritors of their faith claim that their predictions were startlingly verified.
The impious man, who ascribes to the Being of Beings absurd predictions and absolute iniquities, would certainly provoke me, if that Great Being had not bestowed upon me the gift of reason to control my anger.
They must, then, believe, and they do believe, that their predictions will one day be fulfilled, and that they shall have the empire of the earth.
As to the numerous eclipses taken notice of in the records of the country, they are mere registers, noted down whenever they happened, and not predictions or the result of calculations.
Hence the greater part of their predictions were eminently successful; and when the reverse occurred, the fault was laid on the blind misconstruction of the human applicant.
Cassandra had been loved by Apollo, and he gave her the gift of prophecy; but afterwards offended with her, he rendered the gift unavailing by ordaining that her predictions should never be believed.
Besides, there was a college of two hundred philosophers, who, being learned in astronomy and the other arts, were diligent in observing the courses of the stars, and gave Arthur true predictions of the events that would happen.
We do not have to go to prophetic symbols to find in the New Testament clearpredictions of the rise of a false Christianity in opposition to the true.
We shall have occasion to return to this series later and trace its predictions down to our own times.
The predictions contained in these books are the most difficult to be understood of any part of the Bible.
Those predictions whose fulfilment is recorded in the Bible, and diligently examine the record of their fulfilment.
Third, by the predictions of events which have since been fulfilled.
Although diseases may assume a variety of deceptive forms, the predictions made by magnetic patients, many months in advance, seldom fail to be verified.
Then followed more or less interesting revelations, some utterly absurd, others of real interest, and at times actual predictions of future events.
The famous predictions of Jacques Cazotte, a man of high literary renown and the greatest respectability, were witnessed by persons of unimpeachable character and have been repeatedly mentioned as authentic by eminent writers.
It became, however, soon a matter of general remark, that the Brahmin could never be persuaded to refer in his predictions to the time beyond the year 1771, as he had never promised Hodges another post of honor than that which he now occupied.
The most curious effects of the girl's predictions appeared however, when the Conclave was held to elect a successor.
Even historical predictions made in magnetic sleep are not wanting.
May's headlong driving, that every one was recollecting their own predictions of accidents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predictions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
