When the terrible Angelo dealt with them, he almost changed their spirit, giving to his prophets that formidable air more suitable to heathen gods than to saints.
Beneath the arches of the roof are seen the prophets and heathen priestesses, called as witnesses by the Christians (teste David cum Sibylla); a host of angels surround them.
Profane men, says Calvin, desire to have it proved to them by reason, that Moses and the prophets spoke from God.
Thus the prophets received a greater portion of it than ordinary persons in their own times.
Hence Jesus said, that though none of the prophets "were greater than John the baptist, yet he that is least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
The prophets taught not such doctrine to their people, nor the apostles, nor the reformed kirks.
Yet God, having a purpose to have it builded, sends His prophets to stir them up to the building of it.
She liked to hear him talk in that strain of virtuous self-denunciation, but she asked him, "Which of your prophets are you going to follow?
A good Puritan cares no more for their sincere opinions than the Jewish prophets cared about the scruples of a conscientious believer in Baal.
The desert and the wilderness, the sheepfolds and threshing floors bred the judges and prophets of Israel.
The prophets also," said Doctor Verity, "were poets, and of the highest order.
Some prophets there were who even talked with God "face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Not that all the prophets among the various races of men were equally inspired; not that all came with a fulness of truth; not that all had the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But argument from this habit of the prophets is precarious: such a mode of speech may have been a mere accommodation to a popular point of view.
The last verse is a picture of the thronging of the city of the prophets by the prophets again--so close, that they shall look each other in the face.
History went against them, and the prophets quickened their conscience.
Their prophets addressed them as Zion and Jerusalem.
Duhm's Theologie der Propheten, the student will find invaluable Professor Robertson Smith's Prophets of Israel for Isaiah i.
But there is no real reason for introducing the prophets as the speakers of ver.
Hitzig (among others) held that it is the prophets who are the speakers of ver.
Illustration: Daniel in the Den of Lions] [Illustration] The Prophets of Israel.
Anciently the prophets of the Lord anointed the kings to show that they were appointed of God to govern and command.
Daniel, a prophet of the Lord, was given wisdom to tell the king his dream, which he had forgotten, and also its meaning, after the false prophets had confessed that they could not do so.
And let it be further considered, that it was the business of the prophets which the Lord raised up, to make known to them the sins for which his judgments were sent upon them.
We have been so irreverent as to laugh at Mormonism and Millerism, which have created such commotions further North; and modern prophets have no honor in our country.
Principally owing to Richter's matchless combination of artistic enthusiasm, practical mastery, and genial good sense, we now hear things that musical prophets and wise men, such as Beethoven desired to hear and had not heard.
Not only prophets and apostles have had it revealed to them, but grand souls among the heathen have dimly descryed its dawning from afar.
Were not the prophets and apostles denounced as insane men?
In place of sacrifices, the prophets would set justice and good works.
The prophetstaught the people to look for the coming of Him who should deliver them; they prepared the way for the Messiah.
All this débris gives us little information and we know very little more of the Phœnicians than Greek writers and Jewish prophets have taught us.
From these words the prince divined why the two prophets had made the visit, and the blood boiled in him.
From that time forth there was no day when prophets did not assure the high priest that he was borne in the air,--not very high, it is true, about a finger from the pavement.
Toward evening a deputation of priests came, almost by stealth, to the palace of his holiness; the revered prophets fell at his feet, weeping, crying out to him to defend the gods and their sanctuaries.
Perhaps in our sacred papyruses there is mention that in old times there were prophets among us who had the gift of suspending themselves in the air; so the desires of Mefres do not astonish priests nowadays.
Indeed," said the chief, "the holy prophets are beginning to interfere in things which have never been under their jurisdiction.
From all the wonderful places of Lower Egypt many prophets had assembled with the intent to hear words of wisdom.
The treasurer, noting the intention of the pharaoh, answered that flowers and perfumes were sufficient for gods and ancestors, and that prophets like themselves, as morality commanded, should eat barley cakes and drink beer or water.
The prophets are offended," said the pharaoh, smiling.
How long is it since the prophets are occupied with my household?
The holy prophets will manage us so that Musawasa will take Lower Egypt, and we shall have to flee to Thebes, if not to Sunnu, unless the Ethiopians drive us also from that place.
Whereupon the prophets spake, saying, "The virgin indeed shall be famous and great, but there cometh a dreadful war upon her people.
Then the King answered, "Old man, I know the race of prophets full well, how ye sell your art for gold.
Deeply did he ponder in his heart upon the marriage of his daughter, and upon the oracles of Faunus his father, whether indeed this stranger that was now come to his land might haply be the son-in-law of whom the prophets had spoken.
This being the very obvious fact, it shakes our confidence in the whole fraternity of prophets that they should, one and all, attribute the larger fortunes made here and now to the greater love of money, or its more assiduous pursuit.
The fundamental trouble with the whole race of war prophets is that they think the war is a new thing, and they feel called upon to tell the rest of us what to make of it.
The main industry of the busy prophets is to expound to us the meaning of the war, and to disclose to us those causes of the war which we should never have discovered for ourselves.
The prophetsare too cautious to risk their reputation in predicting the events of the war; their forecasts relate to the sort of a world we shall find ourselves in after peace returns.
If such notorious dictatorship is rare in our larger world, there are yet many smaller Judges and Prophets scattered abroad, apparent mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist.
But the prophets will have no chance to point with pride to the great religious, moral and economic revolutions whose advent they pointed out amid the clash of arms.
Let us be thankful that the prophets recognize that encouraging fact.
None of the prophets betray any knowledge of history, or see things in any perspective.
ELI'JAH, the most distinguished of the prophets of Israel, flourished in the ninth century B.
He incurred the anger of Jezebel, wife of Ahab, for slaying the prophets of Baal, but escaped to Horeb, afterwards returning to Samaria to denounce Ahab for the murder of Naboth.
He who was called "Son of man," was not likely to speak less of Egypt and Tyrus and the land in which he was himself dwelling, than those older prophets who had so many more reasons for regarding Judea as the one garden of the Lord.
Their very differences, however, show us that they were both alike prophets and priests.
The prophetsshould have taught us a different lesson.
All died, from Adam to Moses, with the exception of Enoch and Elijah, who, because of their devotion and acknowledgment of the divine head, themselves became prophets of a coming Savior.
We are naturally curious to know whether two contemporary prophets ever conversed with each other.
Such language addrest to one of the favorite preachers or prophets of the people, would have silenced him altogether.
The tombs are there; the prophets have been buried there.
How do you know that there were four greater prophets and twelve lesser in the Old Testament; that there were four evangelists and fourteen epistles of St. Paul in the New?
Through that flame or rather in the heart of it, I saw Ayesha and the file of men in front of her, as the great King saw the prophets in the midst of the furnace that had been heated sevenfold.
Then he added, "Ask yon old wizard who might be one of the Bible prophets come to life--what those man-eating devils have done with my daughter.
Abul Fazl says: "All the prophetsare respectively the Manifestations of the single Reality and one Essence.
Baha Ullah[24] says: "Of the utterances of the prophets of the past we have taken the essence, and in the garment of brevity clothed it.
They contain knowledge which was sealed and closed up by the prophets of bygone cycles, so that the minds of the wisest of men were unable to comprehend it.
All the prophetswere perfect mirrors of God, but in Baha, in some sense, the Divine Essence is manifested.
It refers to the return in another personality of the impersonal Spirit, the Word or Spirit of God, which spoke through the prophets in the past.
We can see, also, that his conflict against the prophets of Baal makes an era in the history of religion in Israel.
Scattered through the narratives drawn from the lives of the prophets are brief notices from the annals and the usual deuteronomist appraisals by the author of Kings.
Such a figure is Micaiah son of Imlah, confronting the four hundred prophets whom Ahab got together, and declaring their unanimity of inspiration to be the work of a lying spirit sent from God to lure the king to his doom (1 Kings 22).
The hopes of the future of God's people and of the world run with the prophets of the Persian period and the contemporary anonymous and editorial additions to the older prophetic books.
Prophets were already a definite group of writings with a traditional use in the readings of the Synagogue, to which a new book could not well be added.
It is in such men as these, rather than in the common herd of prophets by profession, that the ethical prophets of the eighth century have their forerunners.
The oracles of the prophets are arranged, so far as possible, in chronological order, additions and interpolations being set in smaller type.
Assyrians or Babylonians, without whom no picture of the Day of the Lord in the pre-exilic prophets would be complete, are not here; Israel has disappeared.
Yet even of the prophets a number were trained in the nomadic life; others were priests who were shut off also from agriculture.
Furthermore, this is set forth here as a test applicable to prophets in all ages of the history of Israel.
In the later prophets the love and grace and longsuffering of Yahweh and His ceaseless efforts on behalf of Israel are continually made the ground of exhortations, entreaties, and reproaches; but, as a whole, the people still did not respond.
That marks a considerable falling away from the prophetic ideal: it can hardly be regarded as the appointed end of that great religious movement which the prophets dominated and directed for so long.
If the post-Deuteronomic prophets are not prophets, then there are no prophets at all, and the whole discussion becomes a useless logomachy.
The prophets taught and threatened them in vain, until at last ruin fell upon them and the Divine threats of punishment were fulfilled.
To procure them they entered into alliances with Egypt which the prophets denounced, and which brought to the nation nothing but evil.
The examination of the prophets of the Old Testament has convinced students that the prophet's vision starts from his own time, and is primarily for the comfort and warning of his contemporaries.
For if the knowledge of Israel in Moses' day was below the Wolgal standard, then it would seem inexplicable that the ethical monotheism of the prophets should have grown out of it by any merely natural process.
Only the continual outcry of the prophets against it prevented this idea becoming permanently dominant even in Israel.
But if the passage means to give the prophets a place among the national organs of intercourse with Yahweh alongside of the priests, the necessity of distinguishing these true and Divinely given prophets from pretenders was urgent.
Israel's calamities, of which the prophets saw only the beginning, worked a notable spiritualisation in its religion.
These traditions, however, had always been living and elastic; the prophets themselves gave proof that inspiration was still a vital and human thing.
The genial offspring of prophets and poets then has to be kept alive artificially by professional doctors.
This special interpretation is nevertheless precious and shows up the world in that light in which it interests naturalists or prophets to see it.
But the prophetswere not interpreting documents or traditions; they were publishing their own political experience.
For the law and the prophets were full of mercy and loving kindness toward the faithful.
It was a true doctrine, and highly salutary, but we need not wonder that before being venerated theprophets were stoned.
The prophets and psalmists had already shown some beginnings of this asceticism or inverted worldliness.
Far more powerful, however, are those embodiments of the general conscience which religion furnishes in its first and spontaneous phase, as when the Hebrew prophets dared to cry, "So saith the Lord.
So Lessing, Goethe, and the idealists in Germany, and after them such lay prophets as Carlyle and Emerson, had for Christianity only an inessential respect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
