Milton's prophetic genius furnished the eighteenth century, out of the depth of the passionate age before it, with the theological tone it was to need.
The usual passages from Micah and Jeremiah are cited to add Bethlehem and the Murder of the infants to the prophetic story.
From his inner sympathy with the prophetic mind, came his freedom in dealing with the prophets.
Sidenote: Results] It is clear that, in the endeavour to give Christianity a historical background and a prophetic warrant, the Apologists lost all perspective.
He, the true Sicilian bee, culling the flowers of the prophetic and apostolic meadow, begot pure knowledge in the souls of those who heard him.
I see the hill-tops now, and chanticleer Crows his prophetic carol on mine ear; I see the distant woods and fields of corn, And ocean gleaming in the light of morn.
To all alike, however poor he was that came, the aged man gave his oracles with good will, and freed many from their woes by his prophetic art; wherefore they visited and tended him.
And quickly Mopsus withprophetic words spake among them all: (ll.
And he at last drew laboured breath from the depths of his chest and spoke among them withprophetic utterance: (ll.
Come now, tell me this by thy prophetic art, whether for me too the gods will bring to pass such doom as thy father promised for the sons of Aloeus.
For he himself wishes to deliver to men the utterances of the prophetic art incomplete, in order that they may still have some need to know the will of heaven.
There he settled by the guidance of the heifer whom Apollo by his prophetic word granted him to lead him on his way.
But what need is there that I should sin yet again declaring everything to the end by my prophetic art?
It seems now that all has been as usual, except my studies, which have gone somewhat curiously into prophetic history.
Still he would soon relapse from the high prophetic strain to the familiar one of narrative.
It was perhaps after this that David made a last attempt to find a place of refuge in the prophetic circle of Samuel at Ramah (xix.
The general style of all these prophecies differs materially from that of all other propheticwritings in the Old Testament.
Under his successor it began to decay, and in the next generation it fell asunder and lived only in the hearts of the people as the proudest memory of past history and the prophetic ideal of future glory.
This was the cause of a prophetic denunciation (1 Kings xx.
It was said that the prophet Nathan commanded the execution of this plan to be delayed for a generation; but David received at the same time a prophetic assurance that his house and kingdom should be established for ever before Yahweh.
He then demanded, in prophetic fury, to know what in future would be the bounds of possibility.
Communication by prophetic dreams was not, however, the method usually selected by the gods: they employed as interpreters of their wishes the priests and the statues in the temples.
There can, however, I believe, be little doubt, that these prophetic verses are a forgery, and not the production of our Thomas the Rhymer.
For the propheticrenown of Gildas and Bede, see Fordun, lib.
Whatever doubts, however, the learned might have, as to the source of the Rhymer's prophetic skill, the vulgar had no hesitation to ascribe the whole to the intercourse between the bard and the queen of Faery.
Before leaving the subject of Thomas's predictions, it may be noticed, that sundry rhymes, passing for his prophetic effusions, are still current among the vulgar.
Spottiswoode, an honest, but credulous historian, seems to have been a firm believer in the authenticity of the prophetic wares, vended in the name of Thomas of Ercildoun.
Henry the Minstrel, who introduces Thomas into the history of Wallace, expresses the same doubt as to the source of his prophetic knowledge: Thomas Rhymer into the faile was than With the minister, which was a worthy man.
All the prophetic verses are selected from Hart's publication.
Under a Divine oath was this propheticpromise made to Abraham.
Yet their conduct betrayed their ignorance, for they saw not the end of that grand old prophetic age, nor the fading symbolism of the temple, nor the departing glory and decay of their nation.
What two prophets had such a wide range of propheticenergy and liberty as Moses and Elijah?
If we take note of the population according to these several languages, we shall see the prophetic future of the English.
The preliminary exercises of singing by a well-trained choir and prayer were therefore impatiently listened to by many whose thoughts were concentrated on the wonders of the Pyramid and its astounding confirmation of the prophetic Scriptures.
It is well to remember that many of the prophetic numbers contain a double prophecy.
Aided by Providence, we are enabled to interpret some dates by data—that is, certain events occurring locate us and point out the prophetic period we are in.
The times, however, are peculiarly interesting from the very fact that the Church is waking up to the importance ofprophetic study.
He relied chiefly on the sustained appeal to the understanding, and he was a conspicuous example of the prophetic character which Christianity, and Protestantism especially, has given to modern eloquence.
Marduk was not surprised at the innkeeper's information that Malachi was the favorite pupil of Ezra, and that the Scribe did not hesitate to pronounce the young man's spiritual discernment as something akin to the prophetic gift.
They who esteem themselves wise in such matters tell us that this prophetic curse was recently fulfilled in the misfortunes that fell upon the house of the late Emperor of the French, Napoleon III.
The rest is borrowed from the cycle of prophetic narratives, and contains two different versions of the same events.
At the end of the period of the Kings we have the prophetic literature and finally Ezra and Nehemiah.
Then comes the great outburst of the prophetic spirit, the preaching of an age of great religious revival.
We get from these, as also from the earliest direct attempts at history writing, only that conception of Israel's pre-historic life which was entertained in prophetic circles in the eighth century.
With an intensely sensitive nature, he had at times flashes of strange feeling which an unsophisticated society would regard asprophetic inspirations.
With the prophetic vision of a logical mind, he saw that war was inevitable, and he boldly proclaimed his vision.
There are entire families, of nearly every class of animals, which in the state of their perfect development exemplify such prophetic relations.
The Pterodactyles, which preceded the class of birds, and the Ichthyosauri, which preceded the Cetaeca, are other examples of such prophetic types.
We refer to what Agassiz calls prophetic and synthetic types; for which the former name may suffice, as the difference between the two is evanescent.
In Macbeth there is an Enveloping Action of the supernatural centring round the Witches: the human workings of the play are wrapped in a deeper working out of destiny, with prophetic beings to keep it before us.
The historicity of the story is doubted, and its narrow outlook is not that of prophetic Judaism.
Therefore the second principle here laid down, namely the cessation of all these observances, and their like, is really involved in the first, namely their prophetic character.
First, the purely prophetic and symbolic character of the Old Testament order, and especially of the Old Testament ritual.
The underlying principle is that when we have the thing signified by any Jewish rites, which were all prophetic as well as symbolic, the rite may--must go.
What need was there of a prophetic voice to convince her of what her own broken heart had said long since?
Unto Noah, the Lord revealed His intentions regarding the impending deluge; by this prophetic voice the people were warned and urged to repent; disregarding it and rejecting the message, they were destroyed in their iniquity.
Similarly benighted are they who reject the prophetic evidence of His second coming, and who fail to read the signs of the times, which declare the event, at once so terrible and glorious, to be near at hand.
One of the earliest prophetic utterances directly bearing upon this subject is that of Enoch, the ante-diluvian prophet, unto whom the Lord revealed His purposes for all time.
The Lord's voice is heard to-day declaring the same prophetic truths, as is shown in the revelations touching the Millennium given in the present dispensation of the Church.
The Church is, and will continue to be, as truly founded on the rock of revelation as it was in the day of Christ's prophetic blessing upon Peter, who by this gift of God was able to testify of his Lord's divinity.
The Prophetic Works=, consisting of the Revelation of John, commonly known as the Apocalypse.
These men of God had been permitted to behold in prophetic visions many of the scenes incident to the Savior's earthly mission; and they solemnly bore record of the manifestations.
An eye prophetic that has read the leaves The sibyls scattered from their loosened sheaves, A bard that sang at Rome in all her pride, Shall give response;--let Seneca decide!
Plato and Numa and Cicero and Brutus listened to its prophetic cadences, as they fell upon their ears.
Then he moved no more, remembering the three crimes and all the alarming, atrocious and prophetic things represented by that same little steel needle which was piercing his skin and which, in its turn, was implacably penetrating.
In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote his prophetic article in the Atlantic Monthly.
Norbert Wiener's propheticwarning that we will become slaves of intelligent contraptions that take over intellectual faculties deserves more than a parenthetic reminder.
