How To Use Prophecy In A Sentence
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In ancient Egypt, charismatic prophecy apparently was not commonplace, if it occurred at all, though institutional prophecy was of the greatest importance.
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An ancient Hopi Prophecy states. When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens the 5th world will emerge.
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Christians believe that Isaiah's description of this servant was a prophecy that was fulfilled during the life of Jesus Christ.
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Pray publish the Dante and the _Pulci_ (the _Prophecy of Dante_, I mean).
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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This is self-fulfilling prophecy par excellence.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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He seemed to have the gift of prophecy.
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It was no omen, no gigantic prophecy that comes but once an age, but there was power that night.
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From this oft-repeated prophecy Collins was known to every stockman in three States as the Coyote Prophet, the title a jeering one at first, then bestowed with increasing respect as men saw many of his prophecies fulfilled.
The Yellow Horde
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He used the term double-bind, in conjunction with prophecy.
Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind
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And since predestination is comprised under foreknowledge, the gloss in the beginning of the Psalter assigns only two species to prophecy, namely of _foreknowledge, _ and of
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Four volumes deal with different kinds of material in the Old Testament: narrative, prophecy, poetry / psalmody, wisdom and law.
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We could make it a self-fulfilling prophecy if we assume they have civility and regard them all and treat them all as one.
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The prophecy, probably, contemplates ultimately, besides the affliction and deliverance in Sennacherib's time, the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, the dispersion of the Jews, their restoration, the destruction of the enemies that besiege the city (Zec 14: 2), and the final glory of Israel (Isa 29: 17-24).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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As an aside, it occurred to me that Tyrion could have fulfilled the prophecy if he'd killed Cersei with the same improvised garotte he used to take his revenge on Shae -- and that Jaime might find the Hand's chain of office "handy" himself for the purpose, given that his gold prosthetic isn't really suitable for tasks like strangling psychopathic sisters.
Casting clues and possible solutions
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Knox de Valois from the Prophecy series ... i don't know if you'd call it romance but he does have a hot bod and likes to bite the lower lip: -)
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 8 days to go!
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They start spending all their time in bed and their muscles atrophy and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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His views on the nature of prophecy were unpopular among religious scholars.
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I *think* "moreso" has a sense of "more importantly," at least as my students use it: Macbeth's ambition is more important than the witches' prophecy in determining his actions.
Ferule & Fescue
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Christian writings did not enter into his consideration here in the very remotest degree; but it is plain that a later generation could as easily ascribe Christian writings to the inspiration of the Spirit as St Paul ascribed glossolaly and prophecy.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.
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In theory the prophecy could still come true.
Times, Sunday Times
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After each prophecy, (and the Tract that follows the fourth, eighth and eleventh) the priest, standing as usual at the Missal on the Epistle side, with the deacon and subdeacon in line behind him, sings “Oremus”; the deacon sings “Flectamus genua”, and all kneel for a moment of silent prayer, then the subdeacon sings “Levate”, and all rise for a collect, as already mentioned for the Mass of the Presanctified.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies
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A sharpening nip to the wind made me look south, where a familiar pearling of the sky and darkening of sea showed that the ferryman's prophecy was set to come true.
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Claudia amazingly ended her article with the self-fulfilling prophecy that my new novel was to be auctioned for "megabucks".
Susan Braudy: An Excerpt from a Memoir in which the Late Claudia Cohen Saves the Day
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This problem is even more pronounced in epic fantasy were the barbarian hero can't swing a two-handed broadsword without hitting an ancient prophecy, a royal heir in hiding, orcs, elves or an epic quest to complete.
SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why
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The ode is the trumpet of a prophecy which Shelley uttered on a grand scale in Prometheus Unbound: the death of tyranny and the rebirth of freedom.
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology
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In her widening influence, growing liberty, and freedom, I see impearled a prophecy of an altruistic era -- a civilization triumphant -- rising against to-morrow's purpling dawn.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
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Practicing charismatic prophecy, many of Montanus's followers were women, who were allowed to teach, heal, and exorcise demons.
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Poor little spirit! newly come to earth, who knows whether that "waesome welcome" may not be a prophecy?
Olive A Novel
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They are also gifted with prophecy, and help those who are involved in the prophecies.
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Children often know what is expected of them, and believing that children will behave poorly can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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First, characters can represent types of reactions to prophecy and what it stands for.
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This gloomy picture I hold up, not as a prophecy of the fate we are doomed to incur, but only as descriptive of what the term subjugation unquestionably imports.
A Discourse Before the General Assembly of South Carolina, on December 10, 1863: Appointed By the Legislature as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer
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Thirdly, prophecy and social action are captured by a knowing that stems from the will.
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And now the northerlies rising fierce, equatorial, the madman's wind, the mistrals of prophecy, guiding me into the bay.
The Reign of Istar
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To be technical, Jesus made a false prophecy, and that's not something most Christians would want to put that way," said Robert Miller, a professor of religion at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa.
Chronology of Christ's last days confuse Christians
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Lowell's Psalm 137 allusion, the futility of his song, also has a counterpart in Ginsberg: Tho I am not there for this Prophecy, I am unmarried, I'm hymnless, I'm Heavenless, headless in blisshood I would still adore
Yizkor
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The prophecy (Jer 34: 1-7) as to Zedekiah is an amplification of that in
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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PROPHECY: “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel” Isaiah 7:14 NASB.
Can America Survive?
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And on that monument, as all know, is inscribed in imperishable bronze the prophecy and the Fulfillment: 'All will be joy-smiths, and their task shall be to beat out laughter from the rising anvil of life.'
“Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.”
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Before his guests arrived on the scene, Abraham used prophecy as means to speak with God.
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Although not a direct prophecy, in Deuteronomy 34 the Holy Spirit "eulogized" Moses and his standing before the Lord: "There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the v. 10)" This remained the case until the One "worthy of more glory than Moses (
Ask the Pastor
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And they are all bowing to Joseph in fulfillment of the prophecy.
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The real danger of resting on this comfortable pew is that we've come to expect our place in the world to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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PROPHECY: “Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son and, and she will call His name Immanuel” Isaiah 7:14 NASB.
Can America Survive?
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As I understand it, this isn't allegory, but literal truth, a prophecy that will someday be realised.
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She was believed to have the gift of prophecy.
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Convince the electorate that membership is inevitable and it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Believers have declared that this is a prophecy of the Great Fire of London, which is also said to have been foretold by Nostradamus and other seers.
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But although it is by no means perfect, I think that my knowledge of these problems and of their imminent issues is sufficiently intimate to justify me in making a prophecy -- namely, that unless the native and other questions of South-Eastern Africa are treated with more honest intelligence, and on a more settled plan than it has hitherto been thought necessary to apply to them, the British taxpayer will find that he has _by no means_ heard the last of that country and its wars.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
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Let from the world upsoar on high A voice of splendid prophecy!
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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(Averroism); naturalistic theories of miracles and prophecy; the eternity of the world and the concept of eternal creation; the active intellect as giver of forms; the first cause as necessary existent; the emanation of intelligences from the first cause; the distinction between essence and existence; the theory of primary concepts; the concept of human happiness as resulting from perfect conjunction with the active intellect.
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West
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Secondly, God foreknows certain things in themselves -- either as to be accomplished by Himself, and of such things is the prophecy of _predestination, _ since, according to Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 30), "God predestines things which are not in our power" -- or as to be accomplished through man's free-will, and of such is the prophecy of
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Closer inspection reveals the soothsayer had made a typically vague prophecy that a ‘very large robbery’ would take place across the water.
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The residents largely believed, however, in an ancient prophecy that said the city was safe from its enemies during the waxing phase of the Moon.
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Prophecy and clairvoyance are so widely believed by millions of people that magicians are credited with psychic powers that not even Nostradamus would dare claim.
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[807] Prosphatōs genomenos en Ankura tēs Galatias kai katalabōn tēn kata topon (not Ponton) ekklēsian hupo tēs nias tautēs .... pseudoprophēteias diatethrulēmenēn (“When I was recently at Ancyra in Galatia, I found the local church quite upset by this novel form .... of false prophecy”).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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This may well be true, provided that the nature of prophecy be correctly understood.
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A chanter sings the prophecy of Hosea; the Tract follows; the Penitentiary reads the prayer; the Deacon sings flectamus genua, the subdeacon Levate and reads a lesson form the book of Exodus.
More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
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W.dowed wife and wedded maid," occurs in Vanda's prophecy; Sir W. Scott's _The Betrothed_, ch. xv.
Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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But is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?
The Sun
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I understand that a prophecy was given about that time: ‘When our taonga returns, our grievance will be over.’
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But his distinguishing feature, his "dominating gift," was that of prophecy, especially in foretelling the deaths of children, "which he almost always accompanied with jocular words _ (scherzi) _ on his lips.
Old Calabria
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The good father also believed that the last struggle of Champlain on his deathbed was a prophecy.
Champlain's Dream
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Christians believe that Isaiah's description of this servant was a prophecy that was fulfilled during the life of Jesus Christ.
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His apocalyptic vision looks more like prophecy than fiction.
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On the other hand prophecy through visions of angels is low down on the scale.
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This very process would be brought up by said media at every opportunity as a self-perpetuating prophecy, ad nauseam.
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Poseidon is fighting the Titan Oceanus (underwater, of course) but tells Percy it is time for him to hear the prophecy. (more …)
Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » May
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Such malicious castigation, which is internalized by the abused person as true, crushes the spirit of the recipient, and they retreat from the life they were living to follow the script of their destruction -- becoming a self-imposed prophecy.
Jack Watts: Recovering From Religious Abuse
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A very useful and very remarkable kind of prophecy indeed, this inductive prophecy appears to be; and the question arises, whether _a kind_, endowed of God with a faculty of seeing, which commands the future in so inclusive a manner, and with so near and sufficient an aim for the most important practical purposes, ought to be besieging Heaven for a _super_natural gift, and questioning the ancient seers for some vague shadows of the coming event, instead of putting this immediate endowment -- this 'godlike' endowment -- under culture.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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Although he might not agree with my use of the term "Crackpot Christians," Kevin Phillips is certainly correct when he claims that "the radical side of U.S. religion has embraced cultural antimodernism, war hawkishness, Armageddon prophecy, and in the case of conservative fundamentalists, a demand for government by literal biblical interpretation.
Crackpot Christianity and America's Current Moral Degeneration
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Her prophecy was proved to be correct.
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I grew up with prophecy as a normal facet of my life, so I know how you feel about calling, or intended paths.
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It is a self - fulfilling prophecy to assume that your information workers are untrustworthy.
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And thei seyh, that of theise 4, Jesu was the most worthi and the most excellent and the most gret; so that thei han many gode articles of oure feythe, alle be it that thei have no parfite lawe and feythe, as Cristene men han; and therfore ben thei lightly converted; and namely, tho that undirstonden the Scriptures and the prophecyes.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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In fact, we now know that Newton was in many ways a Renaissance man, working in theology, prophecy, and alchemy, as well as mathematics, optics, and physics.
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God will often use men to offer a verbal rebuke through prophecy or admonishment before disciplining us.
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The guidelines given for prophecy apply to all forms of believer-to-believer sharing.
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It's a self-fulfilling prophecy : expect things to go wrong, and they probably will.
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In order to fulfil this prophecy, a number of important events still needed to take place.
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They prepared the way for the Romantics to take up poetry as prophecy, the poet as prophet.
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The confidence man's utter self-assurance can sometimes become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Three scenes in particular are almost puke-worthy: when Goldblum shows Geena Davis how “Brundlefly” eats, when Brundlefly undergoes his final metamorphosis, and, ickiest of all, when the pregnant Geena Davis experiences a dream (prophecy? flash forward?) in which she goes into labor and ends up squirting out a wriggling watermelon-sized maggot.
Top 10 Most Unnerving Movie Scenes » Scene-Stealers
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The perception could thus become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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His gifts were perfume, bilocation, prophecy, conversion, reading of the souls, spiritual healing, and miraculous cures.
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Thus, the restoration of prophecy is very important in the unfolding of the Messianic drama.
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But not only didn't Isaiah, as we have seen, use the word virgin, which all by itself refutes Matthew's virgin birth of Jesus, but the very context in which Isaiah was speaking absolutely precludes the notion of such a prophecy by Isaiah.
Vincent Bugliosi: Why Do I Doubt Both The Atheists And The Theists?
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Now the work of Priestley's which I refer to as applying the prophecy of Isaiah to the Jewish nation, as I do, is entitled
Five Pebbles from the Brook
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It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The burden of Mr. Onslow's prophecy was the unfairness of the trial; and his "bogies" were detectives, just as Mr. Buckingham's were Jesuits.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
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If so, I would ask what stress a reasonable man can lay upon a simple [fn70] prophecy which is allowedly so ambiguous, as to have led Christians, sincerely disposed to make a prophecy of
Five Pebbles from the Brook
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We have tried before to send a group of our own people when we thought perhaps we had misread the prophecy, but they never returned.
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Wishing will ensure that nothing changes, fulfilling the self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Whenever that consummation is attained the root of bitterness will have perished from the land; and when a few years shall have passed, blunting the hatred which has been excited by this fratricidal strife, the Americans of both the Northern and Southern States will perceive that the selfish policy of other nations would not have so rejoiced over their division had it not seemed, to those who loved them not, the proof of past failure and the prophecy of future weakness.
Current Literature
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HIYYYOOOOOOOOOO!...enjoy the snow and dont forget to dab on some Sex Panther..its made from bits of real panther, so you know its good. idiocracyisprophecy
/Film Has Arrived at Sundance Film Festival 2010 | /Film
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I grew up in a Pentecostal-type faith in northeast Mississippi called the Church of God of Prophecy where my father was the pastor.
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My cousin said he prayed that her prophecy might come true, but I remained hard and stockish.
More Pages from a Journal
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The prophecy of a " double blessing " was not to be fulfilled.
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Ipsukuk fell to weeping for a son lost long years agone in the ice, and the shaman made incantation and prophecy.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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As Saree Makdisi observes, "[e] very step that one takes toward pinning down some specific concrete reference to the historical realities or events of the American War of Independence seems ironically to make the prophecy that much more difficult to interpret" (31-2).
Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_
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The prophecy pictures the return of the exiles from Babylon as being like the deliverance from slavery in Egypt.
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The poem contains a bleak prophecy of war and ruin.
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She hadn't had the gift of prophecy in life, and she wondered why she did now in death.
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In the classic bank run, the information gap becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of insolvency; in other cases, insolvency is discovered, not made, as information becomes available and indicates that the institution is genuinely not solvent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Musing on Liquidity and Solvency Distinctions in Sovereign Debt Crises
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Farabi naturalizes prophecy by having the emanated forms received by the imagination pass on to the senses and then out to the air.
Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind
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Of course, she probably only called me to try and goad me into reading her comment and replying (thus completing the cycle and fulfilling the prophecy).
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Some of the themes that Erikson tackles resonate with those from the previous books: convergence, question of fate and the battle of free will vs. predetermination, … The main plotline is built around a certain prophecy, which is at once vague as well as ever-present.
Archive 2008-01-01
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The Belgariad by David Eddings - Garion, an orphaned farmboy is accompanied by his aunt Polgara and grandfather Belgarath as they try and fulfill an ancient prophecy that will decide the fate of the universe.
Ten Fantasy Books That Should Be Movies | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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When it comes to prophecy, mankind has a spectacularly poor record.
Times, Sunday Times
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The relating of this matter so briefly, is a plain intimation to us, that we must not look that way for a confirmation of our faith; we have a more sure word of prophecy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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She knew she needed to decipher it, knowing that the prophecy held the key to her homeward journey.
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To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prognostication.
Religio Medici
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A demon with no shape, only a kind of unformed sexual glare with the eye of prophecy.
The Gunslinger
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If we are charismatics, we will say it is by the currently active gift of prophecy exercised in the worshiping congregation.
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The poem contains a bleak prophecy of war and ruin.
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The united Human, Elvin, and Goblin nations task four anointed knights to find the Crucible before Dragon Eye does (and of course there is a prophecy that they are the chosen ones).
Television Review – Knights of Bloodsteel
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And so, to make certain that the sorceress's prophecy did not come to pass, the king disguised himself as a traveling merchant and set off for the peasant's home.
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privily shall bring in damnable heresies." before ... ordained -- Greek, "forewritten," namely, in Peter's prophecy
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Our marriage has been the victim of a terrible self-fulfilling prophecy.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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In the prophecy of Jacob (Gen., xlix, 26), according to the Douay Version, Joseph is called a "Nazarite among his brethren", but here the original word nazir should be translated
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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When I die, one prophecy is fulfilled, and a new shall begin.
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It was during this perilous time of greed and destruction that a prophecy was made.
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Revelation also says the witness would prophecy in sackcloth, from the Greek word 'sakkos' meaning sackcloth.
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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Joel's prophecy that the valley of Jehoshaphat is to be the scene of the overthrow of the Antichristian foes.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In this prophecy it talks about a key that will destroy and completely obliterate the world.
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You could also read the prophecy in Jeremiah 7: 30-34, where he says the valley will be a mass grave for the dead bodies of people of Judah who are killed by an invading army.
Orality and translation: focusing on images rather than words
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In London, in the presence of six Muslim scholars, he affirmed his belief in ‘the oneness of God and the prophecy of the Prophet Muhammad’.
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And on that monument, as all know, is inscribed in imperishable bronze the prophecy and the fulfilment: ALL WILL BE JOY-SMITHS, AND THEIR
Goliah
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He muttered something that a snaffle was the safest bit a sinner could place faith in -- assumed the mantle of prophecy -- foretold, as it would appear, troublous times to be in rapid advent -- and inculcated that faith should be placed in heaven, and powder kept very dry.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
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Originally Delphi manifested the Goddess of Prophecy in a vaporous cave where fumes induced visionary trances.
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Unfortunately, that view could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Some prophecy should therefore be painful to receive, particularly to the outsider, but by no means all.
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Mina's prophecy was fulfilled - the Brotherhood was defeated when the four quadrants had queens to rule over them.
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Then there are those who prey on the weak or the greedy, promising to alter the future, cast good luck charms, prophecy only good things etc.
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(The self-contradictory flashback/dream sequence/prophecy that takes place in Rheims, in Ink & Steel, for example: I could not have written that scene in 2001.
Funny how the whole world--historically--feels the urge to chase the sun to rest
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With the benefit of hindsight, it has acquired the power of prophecy.
Times, Sunday Times
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RAILWAY MAP OF ENGLAND (A PROPHECY) entitled "The May Day of Steam," the writer notes the passing of the old May Day and foreshadows Labour's appropriation of that festival; and a speech is put into the mouth of a working man prophesying the ultimate unmitigated good of invention, though its first operation created great inequality and caused misery to the hand-worker.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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He refused to transact business on Sundays, held regular family prayers, and was a student of biblical prophecy.
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In an earlier discussion, I described Charismatic prophecy as a kind of "inspired oral poetry."
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Thus from the general tenor of prophecy it appears that infidelity will have overspread the world _when the Son of man shall come_ to reign upon it: And as this agrees to no other coming of his foretold by the prophets, there can be no reasonable doubt what _coming_ is intended in the text.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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From my review: "The author's interest, one feels, is not so much the way in which the mystery is solved, but the nature of fate and self-fulfilling prophecy ....... once the case begins to bite, THE GLASS DEVIL becomes a focused, bleak tale about evil stripped down to its basics, portrayed with this author's unflinching yet unsensational style.
Reading
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Prophecy and clairvoyance are so widely believed by millions of people that magicians are credited with psychic powers that not even Nostradamus would dare claim.
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Such a reading allows us to acknowledge the basic problem with mapping Blakean images in America to historical referents — namely (to paraphrase Saree Makdisi) that the more specific we are in mapping, the more we seem to make obscure the prophecy of the poem — but at the same time this reading moves us beyond the alternative strategy of reading the poem as simply an example of "the idiosyncratic world of Blake's vision.
Introduction
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There was an explosion of oral communication in story, preaching, teaching, worship, prophecy, and so on.
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Macbeth believed the witches' prophecy about his future.
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Apollo was the Greek god of the arts, prophecy, medicine and light.
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All in all, then, for Israelite prophecy the temple had not always been fundamental.
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The thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth chapters form one prophecy, the former part of which denounces God's judgment against His people's enemies, of whom Edom is the representative; the second part, of the flourishing state of the Church consequent on those judgments.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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As we arrive on the scene of the accident, his words become an eerily accurate prophecy.
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His clipped prophecy held the authority of a soothsayer.
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Now, is it not a good omen, a pleasant inconscious prophecy of what is to be?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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That was always a dangerous card to play, and could now become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matthew throughout maintains his underlying theme of linkage with the Old Testament and proof of prophecy.
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But it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy in some regards.
The Sun
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This prophecy was fulfilled in literal detail.
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This famous temple was the home to the Pythia, a specially chosen and trained woman who, according to legend, channeled the voice and wisdom of Apollo, the god of prophecy.
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For as for that part which seemeth supernumerary, which is prophecy, it is but divine history, which hath that prerogative over human, as the narration may be before the fact as well as after.
The Advancement of Learning
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Danger 2: The years-long mania for sharply increasing countermeasure development in high bio-security labs is putting us at higher and higher risk of the theft of weapons-grade anthrax that could make the commission report a self-fulfilling prophecy -- but even then not plausibly anywhere near such a death toll.
Crying Wolf: The Terrorist Crop-Duster
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Williams told everyone who would listen that his players were useless, and it eventually proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Thus literally, in accordance with the prophecy, "_Japheth will be enlarged, he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan_ (the negro) _shall be his servant_.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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You can stop this self-fulfilling prophecy and look at the world more positively.
The Sun
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Only once before the last prophecy I made was my word doubted, and then unbelief was born in the minds of many of the men.
Old Mission Stories of California
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Wringing our hands and saying nothing will ever happen because he's Superman is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The priests follow basic Christian doctrine but also use prophecy, healing, and charms to ward off witchcraft.
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As luck would have it, an ancient prophecy says that he will have the power to fulfil their wish when his 13th birthday comes around.
The Sun
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Otherwise, the self-fulfilling prophecy it alludes to would occur and the band wouldn't exist anymore, right?
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English Readers, Introd. to Hab., pp. 523 – 5, says: “The story, worthless in itself, nevertheless indirectly confirms the theory of date which we have accepted below” in these words, “Habakkuk’s prophecy dates from the reign of
The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.
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By contrast, the sort of Church that Montanus offered was one of ecstatic prophecy, immediate eschatology, ascetic moral rigorism, and, at the same time, institutional chaos.
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But the loss which he who diminishes the words of the prophecy is to sustain, cannot design any deduction from the reward of the Re - deemer.
Letters, and sketches of sermons : in three volumes
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In addressing the puzzle of why Moore's prophecy has failed to come true in China, Tsai notes that the party-state has successfully co-opted and patronised China's new bourgeoisie.
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Each of the references to the cattle-killing prophecy in his narrative seems a modulation of the other.
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To be so selective is to go some way towards ensuring the self-fulfilment of his prophecy.
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The coincidences of prophecy are not more remarkable than those of star-telling; and Dryden and the author I have referred to were probably both captivated into belief by some fatuitous realization of their horoscopic predictions.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
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However, to do so, she must fulfill a prophecy written about her in the Book of the Prophets.
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After the brief bit of prophecy, Watts homes in on the theme of duality that crops up in most of his books and speeches, a result of his understanding of Eastern religions.
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The prophecy that David would become king was fulfilled .
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Jesus fulfilled that prophecy in his day, riding into Jerusalem in peace, as the evangelists tell us in the Passion narrative.
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_Prophets_; as the Prophet _Amos_ [36] intimates, where he says, _I was no Prophet, nor A Prophet's Son_ (which must be interpreted _The Scholar of a Prophet_, for the Scholars of the Prophets are always call'd _Sons of the Prophets_ in Scripture) yet none of these Means were sufficient to help Men to the Gift of Prophecy.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan
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I suppose if you want me to say anything more it will be in the nature of prophecy, and as I suggested prophesying is a very dangerous thing.
Ontario Mines and Miners
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His convictions are ‘that eschatology is profoundly important, that the eschatological system of the Bible is basically simple, and that popular views of prophecy today are profoundly unbiblical’.
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The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy.
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I suggest everyone read "celestine prophecy" as it touches base with what I am saying
LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show
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The players know that, and it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were the meetings of confraternities, at which prayers were offered up, devoted themselves to _glossolaly_ or prophecy, and the reading of correspondence.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
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Many of the prophecies of the foregoing chapters had their accomplishment in Sennacherib's invading Judah and besieging Jerusalem, and the miraculous defeat he met with there; and therefore the story of this is here inserted, both for the explication and for the confirmation of the prophecy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The Old Testament is not just a book of history, law and prophecy.
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Pope John XXIII reportedly opened the envelope when 1960 arrived, but refused to divulge its contents, saying, "This prophecy does not relate to my time.
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The gesture indicated formal speech and authority and appears in pictorial representation of situations involving preaching, prophecy and command.
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He was only on the way to being "diddled" in 1822, but the prophecy (suggested, no doubt, by the announcement of the sale of furniture, etc., at Wanstead
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
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I have great faith in optimism as a philosophy, if only because it offers us the opportunity of self-fulfilling prophecy.
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They should not give credence to any self-prophecy with built-in ulterior motives.
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And on that monument, as all know, is inscribed in imperishable bronze the prophecy and the fulfilment: ALL WILL BE JOY-SMITHS, AND
Goliah
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Apollo was the Greek god of the arts, prophecy, medicine and light.
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He was also the god of prophecy and healing but expressed the more creative aspects of music and sport as well.
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Jesus Christ, was that of prophecy: for the chief and principal end hereof in the church was to foresignify him, his sufferings, and the glory that should ensue, or to appoint such things to be observed in divine worship as might be types and representations of him; for the chiefest privilege of the church of old was but to hear tidings of the things which we enjoy, Isa. xxxiii.
Pneumatologia
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A prophet made a prophecy that the kingdom would fall.
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In his book, Clavis Apocalypticae (The Key of the Revelation) he considered that his great advance in the interpretation of prophecy was his discovery of the “synchronism” of prophecies.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America!
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Messiah to be cut off, have eagerly endeavoured to press it into their service, it remains for me to show, that it is impossible to make this prophecy refer to the cutting off of Jesus.
The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
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Further awakening of the inner potentials gradually bestows the supernormal powers of premonition, afflatus, telepathy, clairvoyance and prophecy.
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The prophecy of the gitana had verified itself, and the ill a fair woman had wrought a fairer woman bad conquered and abolished.
A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio