The journey is full of adventures and novel experiences; Hagen, because he is well versed in the intricate roads, is the leader; his adventure with the mermaid-prophetesses is recorded in the first episode.
But in such matters it is necessary to act with extreme caution, to distinguish carefully between the true prophetesses and the false, not to take for messengers from heaven the heralds of the devil.
The most ancient fathers of the Church, Justin, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, frequently made use of the Sibylline oracles; and the heathen were at a loss for a reply when Lactantius confronted them with these prophetesses of the nations.
This is conclusive proof in itself that there were true prophetesses in the church in those days.
They acknowledged as true prophetesses only those who were already under the direct influence of the holy place and the sacred oak; that is to say, their wives and their daughters.
The mention of only two or three prophetesses in the Old Testament shows that the possession of the gift by women was exceptional.
Chronicles mentions prophetesses as well as prophets; on the other hand, there were no Jewish priestesses.
The word in its etymology signifies the "will of God," and was applied to the inspired prophetesses of some deity, chiefly of Apollo.
Hence the spirit of divination was thought to be inherent in the sex, and women were prophetesses from remote ages.
The Bible tells us of many prophetesses approved of God.
Also under the law there were prophetesses as well as prophets, and the effusion of the Spirit in the latter days as prophesied by Joel was to be equally on sons and daughters, servants and handmaids.
In depth of thought and power of expression however she is quite inferior to the earlier Thuringian prophetesses (§ 107, 2).
On these occasions their prophets and prophetesses were wont to prophesy, and a kind of sacramental supper was celebrated with bread and water.
As in Greece, so too in Babylonia and Assyria, women were inspired prophetesses of the gods.
On the other hand, there were prophetesses as well as prophets in both Babylonia and Israel.
They have also their living prophetesses and prophets, to whom they turn in times of need.
In a village of about thirty-five huts, near us, there were said to be ten prophetesses during the drought two years ago.
We cannot be sure that the traditions Papias reported from these prophetesses were derived at first hand, though it is not impossible that Papias himself may have seen them.
When Esar-haddon inquired of the will of heaven, it was from the prophetesses of Istar that he received encouragement and a promise of victory.
It is probable that these prophetesseswere not ordained to their office, but that it depended on their possession of the “spirit of inspiration.
The oracles delivered to Esar-haddon by the prophetesses of Arbela are in writing, and we have no grounds for thinking that they were written down by an uninspired pen.
The oracles of Istar at Arbela were worked by inspired prophetesses, who thus resembled Deborah and Huldah and the other prophetesses of Israel.
Distinct from them, again, were the prophetesses of Istar, who prophesied the future and interpreted the oracles of the goddess.
Why need I tell at length how many things prophets and prophetesses at the oracles have foretold, and other men and women possessed by a voice of a god within them?
Thekla's name is prominent in early story, and the prophetesses of Phrygia, Prisca and Maximilla, have a place in Church History.
Among the pagans, witches had shared with prophetesses and priestesses a degree of reverence and veneration.
The widespread character of the woman-cult of priestesses and prophetesses among the peoples from whom our culture is derived is evidenced in literature and religion.
Indeed the Sibylline prophetesses were known throughout the Mediterranean basin.
So it was with the prophetesses generally, for just as the great prophets dealt with the politics of state, so a prophetess could not always escape the problems of statesmanship to which her time might give birth.
Prophetesses frequently exerted not only a powerful but at times a decisive influence.
Such prophetesses are called Amlaheys, and no surprise is felt when one of them is brought to bed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophetesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
