As strange as is Mohammed's transformation from an ordinary son of man, which he wanted to be, into the incarnation of Divine Light, as the later biographers represent him, it is still more astounding that the intercession of saints should have become indispensable to the community of Mohammed, who, according to Tradition, cursed the Jews and Christians because they worshipped the shrines of their prophets.

[Footnote 1: Ghazâlî, Ihya, book i., ch. 6, quotes the words of a pious scholar of the olden time: "The 'ulamâ' will (on the Day of judgment) be gathered amongst the prophets, but the qâdhîs amongst the temporal rulers."

The spiritual authority in catholic Islâm reposes in the legists, who in this respect are called in a tradition the "heirs of the prophets."

But the sun had come out warm, and the weather prophets said it was the last storm of the season.

The Church, terrified by the Reformation, when she chanced to hear those strange voices sounding through 'the blessed mutter of the mass,' burned the prophets.

Judah to Sion shall return with might Of greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne, From Babylon, to bless the prophets' sight.

Yet this the fox, the wolf, the crow, made bold By fraud and perfidy, denyin vain: For God that rules, the signs in heaven, the train Of prophets, and all hearts this faith uphold.

The Highest comes in Holy Land to hold His sovran court and synod sanctified, As all the psalms and prophets have foretold: The riches of his grace He will spread wide Through his own realm, that seat and chosen fold Of worship and free mercies multiplied. XLIV.

you prate This wise to me, why prate not thus to all Philosophers and prophets, and to Christ?

An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must perish, for false prophets in the present as in the past stumble onward to their doom; while their tabernacles crumble with dry rot.

Now as from force of long habit he peered out of the doorway before making his exit; he looked like one of the John Sargent's prophets gone a little madder than usuala Jeremiah or a Habakkuk.

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He held out no hope unless they turned to the Lord; nor did any of the prophets.

Hence Isaiah is quoted more than all the other prophets combined, especially by the writers of the New Testament.

" This is the sublime faith of Christendom set forth by the most sublime of the prophets, from the most gifted and eloquent of the poets.

Next to Isaiah, Jeremiah was the most prominent of the prophets who were commissioned to declare the will and judgments of Jehovah on a degenerate and backsliding people.

The corruption of the priesthood and of the great body of the prophets kept pace with the degeneracy of the people.

He forthwith assembled the leading men of the nation,prophets, priests, Levites, nobles, and heads of tribes.

Mount Tabor On Tabor's height a glory came, And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame, The awestruck, hushed disciples saw Christ and the prophets of the law.

The old world knelt in homage due, The prophets near in reverence drew, Law ceased its mission to fulfill, And Love was lord on Tabor's hill.

Hence the inspired Prophets of old Rome Too great for earth fled to Elizium.

Is it not right to protest against ceremonial prescriptions, and to say, with the later prophets and psalmists of the Jews: "Thinkest thou that He will eat bull's flesh, and drink the blood of goats.

Meanwhile their invocations for help to "those good old slaveholders and patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,"[A] sent up without ceasing from the midst of their convulsions, avail as little as did the screams and lacerations of the prophets of Baal to bring an answer of fire.

I took a prophetone of your prophets" "One of my prophets," said the Lord God.

I took a prophetone of your prophets" "One of my prophets," said the Lord God.