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Example sentences for "prophecies"

Lexicographically close words:
propertyless; prophanation; prophane; prophecie; prophecied; prophecy; prophecying; prophesie; prophesied; prophesies
  1. They gather from the sacred books of the Jewish nation the predictions of the longed-for Messiah, and claim them as prophecies fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth.

  2. These words may be the popular feeling on the advent of the resurrection, forced on the Christians by the failure of their Lord's prophecies in any literal sense.

  3. Consider how the prophecies correspond to one another.

  4. This knowledge and these prophecies were not the cause of the occurrences.

  5. Nothing could be clearer than this agreement of the prophecies with one another.

  6. This result has disappointed the prophecies of many wise men of seventy-five years ago.

  7. The over-hasty prophecies of collapse in the last two years have thus far been falsified,[3] but there is now a general feeling of distrust in investing circles.

  8. The prophecies of Ezekiel and Amos are not written in a cultivated style like those of Isaiah and Nahum, but more rudely.

  9. Phoenicia; and was afterwards taken and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, according to the numerous Scripture prophecies thereto relating, Isaiah 23.

  10. Concerning Nebuchadnezzar And His Successors And How Their Government Was Dissolved By The Persians; And What Things Befell Daniel In Media; And What Prophecies He Delivered There.

  11. The reason these prophecies are so true is a simple and yet a wonderful one.

  12. Such abandonment of woe made a deep impression on Betty, and she fell into the way of consoling her sister by cheerful prophecies and a firm belief that the organ-man would yet appear with the lost darling.

  13. But no sooner are they persuaded to compare the Old Testament prophecies concerning the Messiah, with all the circumstances in the history of Jesus of Nazareth, than they anxiously desire to be enlisted under the banners of the cross.

  14. All the prophecies of the Messiah which we possess, were handed down to us from the Jews.

  15. But dismal prophecies are always made about unusual things.

  16. If men were to mind prophecies there would be precious little done in this world.

  17. He was a good man, a true prophet; for his prophecies have been fulfilled.

  18. There was so much reason in the teachings of this man, and such harmony between them and the prophecies and teachings of Christ and of the apostles and prophets of old, that I believed in them with all my heart.

  19. By many he was called a prophet; to my knowledge, many of his prophecies have been fulfilled.

  20. And in view of these prophecies one may exclaim with the psalmist of old: "Go about Zion; count the towers thereof.

  21. He was a strong believer in the prophecies of Joanna Southcott, and was one of the society.

  22. This year has brought to pass the fulfillment of many prophecies uttered in olden and in modern times.

  23. Upon them Nephi engraved the record of his father Lehi, and the genealogy of Lehi, his prophecies and many of his own prophecies and the most part of all their proceedings in the wilderness.

  24. Nephi, in speaking of the prophecies of Isaiah, from which he quoted largely, says that the Jews understood the things of the prophets spoken unto them as no other people not taught after their manner could.

  25. The false prophets made statements and uttered pretended prophecies which were more agreeable to their ears and more in consonance with their ideas and anticipations.

  26. They were full of revelations, and prophecies concerning the coming of Christ and many other great events.

  27. All God's promises and prophecies are conditional.

  28. The stings of conscience hiss prophecies to us of that in God which cannot but be antagonistic to that in us which conscience condemns.

  29. The Gospels tell us of the prophecies about Christ which He fulfilled when He came.

  30. How, when Jeremiah's prophecies against the sins of Jehoiakim and his people were read before him, he cut the roll with a penknife, and threw it into the fire.

  31. I do not wish you to study it merely on account of those prophecies in it, which many wise and good men think foretell the dates of our Lord's first and second comings, and of the end of the world.

  32. His prophecies are full of it--full of lamentation and shame: "Oh that my head were a fountain of tears, to weep for the sins of my people!

  33. The prophecies affecting our days are clear; so much so, that he who runs may read, if need be.

  34. Let anyone examine the great seal of the United States, and study its design, and surprise will fill the mind that facts, Providence, and prophecies do so wonderfully agree.

  35. Hanging upon the fulfilment of this great fact are many other prophecies and events, which are of great interest to the Church and the world.

  36. For connected with these days are a number of prophecies waiting fulfilment, and they are of such a nature that their fulfilment may easily be discerned.

  37. In these things many good and wise men have erred in making prophecies fit certain persons, and nations, and times, instead of waiting for these things to fit on to prophecy.

  38. Prophecies referring to the Jews are numerous and in striking contrast to those that refer to Israel.

  39. The fulfilment of these prophecies will make a radical and fundamental change in Church and State.

  40. Four-fifths of the prophecies of the Bible refer to the history of Judah and Israel in their own land, their captivity and return in the latter day.

  41. In the last two discourses we called your attention to two prophecies that are now fulfilling; they are on parallel lines of time and territory.

  42. Israel, plainly mark out the dwelling-place of these Tribes, and yet these prophecies not being understood, till these latter days, Israel was as actually lost as if there had been no such prophecies.

  43. I think it an important instance how Dreams and Prophecies coƶperate to their own completion.

  44. The Prophet inculcates the notion, and it is believed by every true Mormon, that Smith's prophecies are superior to the law of the land.

  45. But if he did not "reveal," he could not be prevented from uttering oral prophecies and giving his interpretation of the Scriptures.

  46. The Old Testament prophecies were explicit on these two points (Jer.

  47. The passers-by and the chief priests and the two thieves mocked and reviled Him on account of His prophecies and His failure to save Himself (Matt.

  48. It would evaporate as soon as the prophecies it made were fulfilled, and it would claim no being and no worship on its own account.

  49. Dogmas about such a posthumous experience find some shadowy support in various illusions and superstitions that surround death, but they are developed into articulate prophecies chiefly by certain moral demands.

  50. It needs translation into the detailed experience which it sums up in our own past or prophecies elsewhere.

  51. Meantime speculation amuses us with prophecies about what such realities might be.

  52. In its inability to descry anything definite and fixed, for want of an acquired empirical background and a distinct memory, the mind flounders forward in a dream full of prophecies and wayward identifications.

  53. Porphyry said that the prophecies of Daniel were written after their completion, and such may be my fate here; but it requires no second sight to foretell a tome; the first glimpse of the knight was enough.

  54. My wants, so far as God has made me to feel them, are prophecies of God's gifts.

  55. Hence the injunctions in verse 36 lay down the permanent law for the Church, while verse 37 assigns as its reason the speedy fulfilment of the prophecies of Messiah's sufferings.

  56. Hereafter though there are frequent prophecies of His sufferings, there is no repetition of that prohibition.

  57. It is to be noted that the words which Christ bids the disciples speak to their master would recall the prophecies in Isaiah xxxv.

  58. The Eternal Will of the Father, the purpose purposed before the foundation of the world, the solemn prophecies from the beginning of time, constituted the necessity, and involved the certainty, of His death on the Cross.

  59. Such predictions and their fulfillment are, indeed, well calculated to impress the uninformed, whose faith in science rests solely on similar coincidences between its prophecies and what comes to pass.

  60. I have taken two great prophecies of Brigham Young, prophet, seer, and President of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in his day, and traced out their fulfillment.

  61. Hugh made no answer, for he was thinking of his father's tale of the prophecies of Sir Andrew Arnold, and how they grew sad in Dunwich also.

  62. Their parting was very sad, since the prophecies of Sir Andrew had taken no small hold upon Master de Cressi's mind.

  63. Discredit the Buddhist prophecies and the Christian ones must go along with them.

  64. The prophecies may stand for what they are worth; but they were at least fulfilled.

  65. Another reason, according to Mr. Talmage, why the Jew bible is inspired, is that prophecies in it have been fulfilled.

  66. How do we know that the prophecies were not fulfilled before they were written?

  67. He denied the divine origin of Christ and showed conclusively that the pretended prophecies of the Old Testament lead no reference to Him whatever.

  68. Another argument of Mr. Talmage for the inspiration of the bible is that the Jews have been kept as a wandering, persecuted race to fulfill the prophecies of the old testament.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophecies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.