In addition to these James had added the impositions (see p.
It was generally believed that the Lord Treasurer owed his fall to his dislike of a war which would be ruinous to the finances which it was his business to guard.
Thirty years ago there was a bogus prophecy that played the devil in Yemen.
Then I knew that the prophecy had been true, and that their prophet had not failed them.
The Scandinavian name for women endowed with the gift of prophecy was fanae, fanes.
Many a year was to elapse before the prophecy should come true.
My prophecy is but half his journey yet; For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yond towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.
He was brought to this By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Henton.
As Henry's late presaging prophecy Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond, So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts, What may befall him to his harm and ours.
This prophecy Merlin shall make, for I live before his time.
The spirit of deep prophecy she hath, Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome: What's past and what's to come she can descry.
Certainly some person well skilled in prophecy mentioned it to them, or their own mind impels and orders them.
Footnote 546: This prophecy of the dying Patroclus seems to have attracted the notice of Aristotle, if we may believe Sextus, Empir.
In other words, it was prophecy after the fact, like nearly all prophecies that happen to come true; and the "premonition" was an early symptom of the disease itself.
This remedial power does not imply any gift of prophecy on nature's part, nor is it proof of design, or beneficent intention.
There is absolutely no adequate ground for the tone of lamentation and the Cassandra-like prophecy which pervade all popular, and a considerable part of medical, discussion of the race aspects of the cancer problem.
Messianic prophecy and fulfilled in Jesus, was baptized with his wife and his son Stephen by Joh.
Jose said: I was vexed all my life in not being able to understand the prophecy in Deut.
In 1850 he issued a Dutch paper, giving expositions of Messianic prophecy and the like, for circulation among the Jews.
The beginning of Huldah's prophecy was suppressed, when the capture of Jerusalem proved that the reform of divine worship had not succeeded in averting the wrath of Jahveh.
Judah forgot her own sorrows on seeing the peril in which they stood, and Jeremiah pronounced against them a prophecy full of menace.
Zephaniah gives his own genealogy at the beginning of his prophecy (i.
The prophecy of Nahum has been taken by some as referring to the campaign of Phraortes against Assyria, but more frequently to the destruction of Nineveh by the Medes and Chaldæans.
Cobden's prophecy of the world following Britain's example in free trade had not been fulfilled.
Those in Canada who had urged the contribution policy had the gloomy satisfaction of seeing theirprophecy of speedy war with Germany fulfilled.
This has been the aim and the prophecy of the pioneers in submarine development.
I noted approvingly that he had to stoop a bit as he entered the low doorway, and that the Vandyke of my prophecy was missing.
That turned out to be the truest prophecy I ever made.
The prophecy contained in this letter was quickly fulfilled.
The secrecy of official life has become so great and successful that prophecy of political changes must be mere guess work.
It is, therefore, true that the year and a half we waited after the Lusitania will prove to be the most costly year and a half in our history; and for once at least my old prophecy was quite a good guess.
In his prophecy of the restoration of Israel, Ezekiel definitely refers to "the year of liberty," when the inheritance that has been granted to a servant shall return again to the prince.
St. Peter bids the disciples, to whom he writes, take heed unto the word of prophecy as unto a lamp shining in a dark place "until the day dawn, and the Day star arise in your hearts.
It need occasion no surprise that we should find imagery used by St. John in his prophecy already set forth in the constellations nearly 3,000 years before he wrote.
It occurs in the prophecy of Amos, where it is rendered "stories" or "ascensions.
Two other passages point to the circulation of water vapour upward from the earth before its descent as rain; one in the prophecy of Jeremiah, the other, almost identical with it, in Psalm cxxxv.
Another "city of the sun" in the land of Egypt is also mentioned by Isaiah, in his prophecy of the conversion and restoration of the Egyptians.
Moses hid him when she saw that he was a goodly child; by Moses, in his prophecyfor Joseph, of "Blessed of the Lord be his land .
This prophecy was quoted by St. Peter on the day of Pentecost.
They wanted to disclose their identity to you then and there and exhort you to return with them to your people, but I persuaded them to wait, reminding them that the White Cloud's prophecy was not yet entirely fulfilled.
You have come at last, my children--the prophecy is fulfilled!
The world has been on the qui vive for the fulfillment of prophecy ever since the expulsion of our common ancestry from Eden.
He welcomed his kinsman joyfully and, having the gift of prophecy from Apollo, foretold the course of his wanderings.
When the Trojans heard this terrible prophecy their hearts sank within them, and Anchises, lifting his hands to heaven, besought the gods to avert this grievous doom.
Bishop Butler affirms miracles and the completion of prophecy to be the "direct and fundamental proofs" of Christianity.
Prophecy and the words of Christ himself are alone of dogmatic value, all else is human teaching.
When the evidence of prophecy joined with that of miracles, and showed that the new doctrines were only contrary to experience and not contrary to reason, the world embraced the faith.
For Prophecy in that place, signifieth no more, but praising God in Psalmes, and Holy Songs; which women might doe in the Church, though it were not lawfull for them to speak to the Congregation.
I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor spake unto them, they prophecy to you a false Vision, a thing of naught; and the deceit of their heart.
For there were in his time but Seventy men, that are said to Prophecy by the Spirit of God, and these were of all Moses his election; concerning whom God saith to Moses (Numb.
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, hearken not unto the words of the Prophets, that prophecy to you.
New Testament at this day, amongst the Spirituall Prophets: Every man then was, and now is bound to make use of his Naturall Reason, to apply to all Prophecy those Rules which God hath given us, to discern the true from the false.
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.
He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.
I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
You know that I am a Jew, heart and soul," said Jacob; "but I pity Poland if your prophecy is accomplished.
My dear sir," said Jacob, "your prophecy is not yet ready to be realized.
The race of prophets appeared extinct until prophecy was revived in John the Baptist.
He sees in it the fulfilment of all prophecy as well as the consummation of all history; he sees in it the explanation of the mystery of birth, and the conquest over the mystery of the grave.
In those words, quoting the psalm in which the early Fathers rightly saw a far-off prophecy of the whole passion of Christ, he borrowed from David's utter agony the expression of his own.
One need not be endowed with the spirit of prophecy to foretell that "allowances" in war time will broaden out into motherhood pensions in peace times.
This agreeableprophecy does not spring from a heartening belief in victory, but only from the procrastinating attitude, "Why get ready?
Thou record of the past, thouprophecy Of the sad future!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophecy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
