To Peter had come glimpses of the magnificent selfishness of this prophet of the people.
The Prophet Elijah's controversy with the priests of Baal is one of the most dramatic episodes in sacred history.
Early in 1837, during a period of apostacy at Kirtland, the Prophet said: "Something new must be done to save the Church.
The Prophet Ether and King Coriantumr, the last of the Jaredites.
After the Prophet had regained his freedom, and while his followers were settling at Commerce (afterwards Nauvoo), an epidemic of fever and ague swept over that region.
Haloed with fire, while burns the heavenly glow, Upon the Prophet they their powers bestow[5].
Joseph the Prophetand Hyrum the Patriarch were murdered while under the pledged protection of the Governor of Illinois.
Joseph, compared to Moses, is predicting his own death and the coming of his successor, the President of the Twelve, upon whom the Prophet placed the right of succession.
On Christmas Day, 1832, the Prophet foretold the war between the North and South.
Things of yesterday, as thy Prophet and thy creed are, thou canst not sound the unfathomable loathing which each heart faithful to the Ancient of Days feels for such as thou and thine.
Every contraband prophet gets a few followers: it is a great point to make these sequacious people into Buridan's asses, which they will become when prophets are so numerous that there is no choosing.
Once, however, he had neglected it; it was that very night which you all will remember when the wolves broke into the temple, and tore the rams, and the sacred heart was laid in the breast of the prophet Rui.
You begin--the chiefprophet of the temple of Atnenophis.
Pentaur knew where to seek Gagabu, for he himself had been invited to the banquet which the prophet had prepared in honor of two sages who had lately come to the House of Seti from the university of Chennu.
I had known the Prophet well, for I had met him a hundred times in his gilt litter, and we always called him Rui, the rich.
The high-priest's servants told him that Setchem had persuaded the easily-moved old prophet Gagabu to conduct her to the place where the body of Paaker lay.
Then I stood before the strong, stout corpse of the prophet Rui, who died of apoplexy, and I remembered the honor and the riches that he had enjoyed on earth, and that he at least for a time had known happiness and ease.
Ameni walked thoughtfully by the side of the prophet Gagabu.
Babel, and which will be, as the prophet expresses it, 'the returning of a pure language!
Such was the irrepressible prophet who troubled the Israel of slave-holding Quakerism, clinging like a rough chestnut-bur to the skirts of its respectability, and settling like a pertinacious gad-fly on the sore places of its conscience.
Its ceremonies, as well as its creed, rest entirely on the recognition of Mahomet as the Prophet of God.
Of all the Damascenes I have yet seen, there is not one but declares his city to be the Garden of the World, the Pearl of the Orient, and thanks God and the Prophet for having permitted him to be born and to live in it.
The village of Aboo 'l Ghosh is said to be the site of the birth-place of the Prophet Jeremiah, and I can well imagine it to have been the case.
No one knew whether the members of that noble house had especial grace, because they were of the race of the royal prophet David, or whether the art of rendering themselves invulnerable was hereditary.
Chidhar, the Prophet ever-young Thus loosed the bridle of his tongue.
Egypt has not had a ruler of its own since the battle of Actium, fought by Augustus Caesar, thirty years before our Saviour, as God by his prophet had foretold that their own kings would cease forever to reign over that country.
Its doctrine consists in the unity of God, for Whom we must live and die; in the immortality of the soul; the eternal rewards of the just and punishments of the wicked; and the mission of our great prophet Mahomet, proved by victories.
Was there a Brahma, who really gave himself out as a prophet and son of God?
It is averred by all the Mahometans that their prophet forbade wine and liquors solely to preserve their health and prevent quarrels, in the burning climate of Arabia.
The curse of the Prophet on your house," said Cassim to Omar; "why do you invent such lies, and why are we such fathers of the ears to believe them?
It could not shake her resolve of dying for her faith, but she mentally prayed to that God who had delivered the prophet from the lions, to aid her in her extremity.
A Christian gave them to me, may the Prophet enlighten him before his death!
There is not an Arab who would not risk his life for the guest of our chief: therefore, O Sheik, friends we fear not: and may the Prophet put him in danger of an enemy, that I may prove myself worthy of your trust.
Thus was the judgment which God had denounced by the prophet Isaiah to king Hezekiah accomplished.
All these things came to pass upon Nabuchodonosor, as the prophet had foretold.
Archbishop Usher and Dean Prideaux suppose that it was at this period that the ruin of the famous city No-Amon,(446) spoken of by the prophet Nahum, happened.
But neither the prophet nor the king were heard; and nothing but the most fatal experience could open their eyes, and make them see evidently the truth of God’s threatenings.
The prophet also tells us the cause and motive of all these wonderful events.
One day, coming to the seventeenth verse of the first chapter, he read these words of the prophet Habakkuk, "The just shall live by faith.
Thus the wrath of God is fulfilled upon us, as the prophet speaks: 'I will give them youths for governors, and babes will rule over them.
He was a careful student of the Prophet Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John; he even wrote a Commentary on these Books, and censured the most crying abuses of monastic life.
The Chronicles of Isenach call her "the pious Shunammite," in allusion to her who so earnestly pressed the prophet Elisha to eat bread with her.
The prophet exclaims, 'Lord, enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight can no living man be justified.
The followers of the prophet hold minstrels but in slight reverence.
Although the ship should put forth on the intended day, and should make a prosperous voyage, the prophet has not been proved to be false.
Very early in the history of Rome it was found expedient to steal an Etruscan soothsayer for the reading of these riddles, which was gallantly done by a young soldier, who ran off with an old prophet in his arms (Livy, v.
On his death, Schamyl was raised to the dignity,--but it was some time before the mischief done by his predecessor was so far repaired as to allow him to act with energy as the prophet of the new doctrine.
As a prophet of the truth of political morals, as a revealer of those essential elements in the constitution of life, upon which, or of which, society is constructed and government evolved, Burke had no peer.
By some sad calamity this old prophet had lost the sight of his eyes, and to compensate their servant for that great loss the gods endowed him with a staff with eyes.
Philip the deacon to Queen Candace's treasurer as he sat down beside him in the chariot and opened up to him the fifty-third of the prophet Isaiah.
You will easily remark the difference of tone between the seriousness and pathos of the Hebrew prophet and the light and chaffing touch of Theophrastus.
I'll call this tale The Prophetand the Fortune-Tellers.
And now, can you tell me who was that prophet that sent a letter to the husband of 'the good grandmother,' and who predicted the fate of her parents, Ahab and Jezebel?
But the prophet still spoke on: "I have a parable to tell thee, O mighty King.
But the prophet answered, "If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me.
We may presume that the true prophet was liberated from his confinement, and that the base and impudent impostor was punished as he deserved.
The prophet Jeremiah lamented the wickedness of the age in which he lived, and the vice and immorality that every where abounded.
The prophet ascribes to God alone the framing and stretching out of the heavens and the earth without the counsel, direction, or ministry of any subordinate agency.
The prophet Isaiah adopts the same style, "Thy Maker is thine husband," in the Hebrew, thy Makers are thy Husbands.
The prophet Isaiah, with a boldness and majesty becoming the herald of the Most High, begins his prophecy with calling on the whole creation to attend, when Jehovah speaks.
Perhaps the prophet Jeremiah has an eye to this when he says, "The sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones.
And sometimes we are to understand by it, one employed in the ministry of the Gospel; in this sense a prophet and a teacher are reciprocal terms.
Any more than it takes a prophet to tell that you are one of them.
It don't take a prophetto tell that, after what happened the other night.
