prophetical ness (profetikalnes)

[ prophetizet (prof'et-īz), v. i. [ Nor, thrild with bodkins, raues in frantik-wise, And in a furie seems to prophetize . Nature Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. so doth warning send By prophet i zing dreams. Daniel , Civil Wars, iii. [ prophet + prophetship (prof'et-ship), п. -ship .] Same as prophethood. To deny Mahomet's prophetship would excite a violent antagonism. B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 24. prophitet, n. A Middle English form of profit . prophloëm (pro-flō'em), n . [ pro- + phloëm . ] A ti ue in the sporophore of mo es, resembling the phloëm of ordinary stems in microscopic structure, and corresponding to it in position. not sober to say they did ought of moment without divine prophorict (pro-for'ik), a. [ prophet (prof'et), n . [ prophete , profett , profite , prophete , profete , F. prophète = Pr. Pr. Pg. prophet a = = Sp. It. profeta =OFries. = ( pro- pheta = D. profeet = MLG. prophète = MHG. prophète, G. prophet = Sw. Dan. profet , praufetes , prau- fetus , προφάτης , one who speaks for a god, an interpreter (as Tires i as prophesy. [Rare.] Milton, Church-Government, i. 2. The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the soothsayers shew unto the king. Dan. ii. 27. IMG:content-1104.png:[blocks in formation] Stan i hurst , Æneid, iii. 727. ( Davies .) gint an interpreter, spokesman, usually an in spired prophet, also a revealer of the future, ature, in N. T. and eccl. an interpreter of Scripture, preacher, the times of the Old Testament there was an order of prophets, for the duties of whose office men were trained in colleges called schools of the prophets. The members of these schools acted as public religious teachers, and the prophets in the stricter sense (inspired teachers) generally belonged to this order. In the New Testament, Christian prophets were recognized in the church as po e ing a charism distinct from that of mere teachers, and as uttering special revelations and predictions. They are often mentioned with apostles, and next after them in order. Thesus that sprong of ie e roote, As us hath prechid thi prophete . Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 12. The word prophet ( προφήτης ) was derived in the first instance from the interpreters of the will of the gods (see Pindar, N., i. 91); later and especially it was applied to those who expounded the unintelligible oracles of the Pythone of Delphi, or the rustling of the leaves of Dodona. In a metaphorical sense it was used of poets, as of interpreters of the gods or Muses. It was then adopted by the Septuagint as the best equivalent of the nab i or prophet of the Old Testament. In all these cases (Acts ii. 17, 18; xiii. 1; xv. 32; Rev. i. 3; xi. 3, 6, 10, 18; xvi. 6; xviii. 20, 24; xix. 10; xxii. 6, 7, 9, 10, 18), in the New Testament as in the Old, and it may be added in the Koran, the prominent idea is not that of prediction, but of delivering inspired me ages of warning, exhortation, and instruction; building up, exhorting, and comforting; convincing, judging, and making manifest the secrets of the heart (1 Cor. xiv. 3, 24, 25). The ancient cla ical and Hebrew sense prevails everywhere. Epimenides and Mahomet on the one hand, Elijah and Paul on the other, are called prophets, not because they foretold the future, but because they enlightened the present. A. P. Stanley , Com. on Corinthians, p. 243. 2. One who foretells future events; a predicter; a foreteller; especially, a person inspired to announce future events. As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets , which have been since the world began: That we should be IMG:content-1105.png:[blocks in formation]