Fire and brimstone will descend upon it as on Sodom and Gomorrah, and it will be consumed and wither away, with its cruel Ahabs and its painted Jezebels, its subtle Doegs and its lying Balaams, its priests and its judges, and its proud men of blood, its Bible-idolaters and its false prophets, its purple and damask, its gold and its fine linen, and it shall be as Tyre and Sidon, so that none shall know the site thereof.

They are somewhat difficult, here and there, to understand; but nevertheless Amos is perhaps the grandest of the Hebrew prophets, next to Isaiah.

And like them for our holy prophet's sake.

He has a fondness for the Old Testamentlikes to get into the company of Isaiah, Jeremiah, &c.; sometimes touches the hem of Habakkuk's garment; and nods at a distance occasionally at Joel and the other minor prophets.

Thus the sermons of the pre-exilic prophets, as for example those of Amos and Isaiah, were then revised and supplemented at many points.

Thus the sermons of the pre-exilic prophets, as for example those of Amos and Isaiah, were then revised and supplemented at many points.

As far as the prophetic import of the Deluge is concerned, a very small local affair might be mystically large with foreshadowings, as we see with regard to the enacted prophecies of the later prophets.

Her zeal for morality was very great; she was an ethical prophet; the moral order of life roused her mind to a lofty inspiration.

In fine, the word is applied to all persons doing service to othersto magistrates, to all governmental officers, to tributaries, to all the subjects of governments, to younger sonsdefining their relation to the first born, who is called Lord and rulerto prophets, to kings, to the Messiah, and in respectful addresses not less than fifty times in the Old Testament.

In the agony of beholding a wife or daughter upon the table of the auctioneer, while every bid fell upon his heart like the groan of despair, small comfort would he find in the dull assurance of some heartless prophet, quite at "ease in Zion," that "ULTIMATELY Christianity would destroy slavery."

my fathers were so before me, even in the times when our people had a home amidst the pyramids of the mightyin the times when you are told the mightier prophets of the Israelites put the soothsayers of Egypt to confusion; idle tales!

Reluctant prophet.

Surplus prophets in their own words.

How inform a bilious, middle-aged prophet of evil that she had not only wedded prosperity and industry but also a glorious young demigod whose tenderness and goodness passed belief?

They spoke with the authority of inspired prophets.

There is, I believe, but one representation in London of that celebrated prophet, and it is in the possession of his lineal descendant.

In his earlier poems this great unknown prophet dealt largely with the interpretation of Israel's past history and the proclamation of the coming deliverance (40-48).

But one prophet, more honest and boldperhaps more giftedthan the rest, Micaiah by name, took a different view of the matter.

"What a dismal prophet you are!

[Endnote 190:2] that because Hippolytus says that Basilides appealed to a secret tradition he professed to have received from Matthias, and Eusebius that he set up certain imaginary prophets, 'Barcabbas and Barcoph,' he therefore had no other authorities.

He at once ordered the Temple police to seize the bold and outspoken prophet, who was forthwith punished for his plain speaking by the bastinado, and then hurried bleeding to the stocks, into which his head and feet and hands were rudely thrust, to spend the night amid the jeers of the crowd and the cold dews of the season.

Vieweth these the blue-eyed prophet, Still the oracle says calmly, Speaks the seer with golden tresses "No!

They are not maledictions; they are simply divine revelations to the gifted prophet, or logical deductions which the inspired statesman declares from incontrovertible facts.

The royal prophet, that extended grace From heaven to earth, measured but half that space.

On the pendentives between the spaces of the windows, running up to the ends of each of the five lesser pictures, Michelangelo placed alternate prophets and sibyls upon firm projecting consoles.