How To Use Prophesy In A Sentence

  • The time of his prophesying is stated in the introduction to be in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, that is, between 757 and 699 B.C. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • 722 B.C. The prophets, however, were not uninterruptedly engaged in prophesying. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Because such a four-tiered system is still in the future, I can only prophesy its appearance.
  • * The Speedwell, of which Reynolds irg of prophesying ', or privale men's was captain. — Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
  • How can you claim that a prophesy about a leader appearing from a certain clan is fulfilled by Jesus, who merely happened to be born in town that shares its name with that clan? An Amazing First Century
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  • Then some began to spit at him; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy! " And the guards took him and beat him.
  • And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy , your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
  • Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination, or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world.
  • While they were in close pursuit of charity, and made this Christian disposition their chief scope, they might be zealous of spiritual gifts, be ambitious of them in some measure, but especially of prophesying, that is, of interpreting scripture. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay.
  • Also, in the same journal I write that D prophesied that I should beware of chewing gum, but later on M, who was sitting beside me, found some chewing gum under his seat, and D realised that the prophesy was actually for M, not for me.
  • A new breed of soothsayers has already been prophesying the virtual demise of the manufacturing industry.
  • Now, do you not see how, like some great star, trembling into the field of the telescope, and sending arrowy beams before it to announce its approach, the great central Christian truth is here dawning, germinant, prophesying its full rising? Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
  • Continue here: My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy JimK Planet-x.com.au » My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy (JimK)
  • Over the centuries, Nostradamus has been credited with prophesying murky futures down to the last detail.
  • They recall the prophesy that a soothsayer named Calchas had once made about the future.
  • He refused to prophesy when the economy would begin to improve.
  • I need hardly remind you that ‘necromancy’ is a Greek word, which signifies, according to its proper meaning, a prophesying by aid of the dead, or that it rests on the presumed power of raising up by potent spells the dead, and compelling them to give answers about things to come. English Past and Present
  • For those who don't have the possibility to learn astrology, there are simpler and easier methods to prophesy their future.
  • Children were taken out of school in order that they might attend the prophesyings and get all knowledge by supernatural intuition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
  • Since this was in the nature of prophesy, the papal legate was able to insist that this showed clearly that the Church should be leading the Crusade.
  • It is easy to prophesy after the event. 
  • This city is said to be the mother-city of all the other Ethiopians: and they who dwell in it reverence of the gods Zeus and Dionysos alone, and these they greatly honour; and they have an Oracle of Zeus established, and make warlike marches whensoever this god commands them by prophesyings and to whatsoever place he commands. The History of Herodotus
  • France, which had preserved the antique ceremonies of the worship of Isis, the sistrum, the cymbals, the dance of Isis, the prophesying, and the art of robbing hen-roosts. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • It had frequently been the practice of the Puritans to form certain assemblies, which they called "prophesyings;" where alternately, as moved by the spirit, they displayed their pious zeal in prayers and exhortations, and raised their own enthusiasm, as well as that of their audience, to the highest pitch, from that social contagion which has so mighty an influence on holy fervors, and from the mutual emulation which arose in those trials of religious eloquence. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
  • The queen's prohibition of the "prophesyings," or the assemblies instituted for fanatical prayers and conferences, was founded on a better reason, but shows still the unlimited extent of her prerogative. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
  • Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
  • “knowledge above the common sort of my brethren” (pride has crept in again!), and has been compelled to “forespeak,” or prophesy. John Knox and the Reformation
  • Israel's perception of the Iranian threat, Mr. Parsi says, has long "resembled prophesy more than reality," impelling the Jewish state to frame its conflict with Iran's clerical regime "as one between the sole democracy in the Middle East and a theocracy that hated everything the West stood for. It Takes Two to Engage
  • Elizabeth, he soon learnt from the gossip of the household, was as determined to put down the Puritan "prophesyings" as the popish services; for both alike tended to injure the peace she was resolved to maintain. By What Authority?
  • This volume of gonzo musings completes the “accidental trilogy” begun in Blood Orchid and continued in Blues for Cannibals, offering more scorched-earth prophesying by the hard-bitten Bowden, a journalistic iconoclast in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Abbey, and James Agee. Cover to Cover
  • There may have been a time in the world's history when such moments fully revealed their gravity, with witches prophesying on a blasted heath of visible Rubicons to be crossed.
  • Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
  • We speak not now of those, who amidst the monuments of oppression are engaged in the sacred vocation; who, as ministers of the Gospel, can "prophesy smooth things" to such as pollute the altar of Jehovah with human sacrifices; nay, who themselves bind the victim and kindle the sacrifice. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4
  • The fact that I prophesy a journey clearly implies that Olly will cooperate in guiding you. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • As the ethnobotanist Wade Davis explains in The Rainbow and the Serpent, his scientific exploration of zombie death in Haiti, a mind conditioned from birth to believe in curses will succumb to a “self-fulfilling prophesy” when a taboo or spiritual code is broken. Spellbound
  • The celebrated dispute about 'prophesyings' in the sense of 'preachings' in the reign of Elizabeth, and the treatise of Jeremy Taylor on 'The Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
  • `I prophesy charismatic wonders, incense in the College chapel and a collective nervous breakdown for the remaining staff. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • prophesyings," or the assemblies of the zealots in private houses, which, she apprehended, had become so many academies of fanaticism; and for this offence she had, by an order of the star chamber, sequestered him from his archiepiscopal function, and confined him to his own house. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
  • Kazimoto wrapped an enormous mound of cold mtama pudding in a cloth and went his way, prophesying darkly of murder and sudden death lurking behind rocks and trees, as unwishful to be alone as a terrier without a master, but much too faithful to refuse duty. The Ivory Trail
  • And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": 149 where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision. Leviathan
  • In part two, Cassandra, doomed by Apollo to prophesy truth to disbelievers and brought as a slave by Agamemnon from Troy, foresees that she will be murdered along with her oppressor, and yet (still recalling Aeschylus): in she went to the knife, to the killer wife to the net over her slaver, the Troy reaver, saying, 'A wipe of the sponge, that's it. Insight: Poetic Visions of the Past
  • So might this hypnotic, janglingly joyous painting, which at once distances itself from the astringent purism of New York's anti-nature abstractionists and predicts the way ahead, be a case of the pupil prophesying the master?
  • prophesyings" with all the healthy ardour of prejudice. Come Rack! Come Rope!
  • He refused to prophesy when the economy would begin to improve.
  • The prophetic books of the Bible can be but specimens of the prophesyings of that time.
  • The fact that I prophesy a journey clearly implies that Olly will cooperate in guiding you. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Aristotle wrote on prophesying through dreams.
  • No matter what you prophesy, that doesn't change what I am, does it? A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • It is easy to prophesy after the event. 
  • And sometimes the anticipation of disaster is a self-fulfilling prophesy. THE SAVING GRACES
  • -- Can God's prophets be so unanimous in prophesying against you, if God's Spirit were not joined with them, or if their prophecies were false? Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • To-day, far more voices are engaged in denying the yellow peril than in prophesying it. The Yellow Peril
  • 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
  • They warn of a ‘self-fulfilling prophesy’: If men are told over and over that they are not only brutal subhumans in general but also hostile to women in particular, they are likely to say, ‘So be it.’
  • In the room next door, a soothsayer was telling people's fortunes - and it's safe to assume the future she's prophesying for her country is not a happy one.
  • Now and again he poked me in the ribs with the handle of his assegai, as though to assure himself that I was solid, and several times he asked me to be so good as to prophesy how many Zulus would be killed before the "Amaboona," as they called the Boers, were "eaten up. Allan's Wife
  • The fact that I prophesy a journey clearly implies that Olly will cooperate in guiding you. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The Micah prophesy is clearly about someone of the Bethlehem Ephratah clan. An Amazing First Century
  • A woman prophesying in the midst of her own family doesn’t fit; a woman prophesying out in the open marketplace seems ajar.
  • Yes, milady, and the prophesy is being fulfilled at the moment!
  • The term prophesy, in this instance, must be restricted to the use of psalmody, because exposition or exhortation in public was not permitted to the women, who were not allowed to speak or even to ask a question in a place of worship. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
  • `I prophesy charismatic wonders, incense in the College chapel and a collective nervous breakdown for the remaining staff. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • That a new 3G iphone will be released with new hardware is a given … there’s no claim to fame in prophesying that. Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment
  • Then prophesyings were uttered to them both at Dodona and also at The History of Herodotus
  • 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
  • The queen, whose dread and hatred of the puritans augmented with the severities which she exercised against them, had conceived a violent aversion to certain meetings called prophesyings, at this time held by the clergy for the purpose of exercising their younger members in expounding the Scriptures, and at which the laity had begun to attend as auditors in great numbers and with much interest. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • If this was meant as an insult, it soon flowered into prophesy.
  • Some such convulsion as geologists declare has already frequently befallen our earth; and, as they prophesy, is shortly coming again. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."
  • No matter what you prophesy, that doesn't change what I am, does it? A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • And sometimes the anticipation of disaster is a self-fulfilling prophesy. THE SAVING GRACES
  • Lameduck-soon-to-be-impeached Bush is so far out of touch with the real world that he probably doesn’t realize that he’s created his own self-fulfilling prophesy…..wasn’t it on 60 minutes that he uttered those fateful words: Well, I don’t care if it’s only Barney and Laura who are still my friends…..yadda yadda yadda? Think Progress » NRA pressured to resist Bush energy policies.
  • `I prophesy charismatic wonders, incense in the College chapel and a collective nervous breakdown for the remaining staff. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • knowledge above the common sort of my brethren" (pride has crept in again!), and has been compelled to "forespeak," or prophesy. John Knox and the Reformation
  • I may safely prophesy that if the time ever comes when those nations which we call civilized give over fighting, then even the red Indians may be persuaded to follow their example. At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear
  • They sometimes meet heroes, as they met Helgi in the Eddic Lay (Helgi and Sigrun Lay), and help or begift them; they prepare the magic broth for Balder, are charmed with Hother's lute-playing, and bestow on him a belt of victory and a girdle of splendour, and prophesy things to come. The Danish History, Books I-IX
  • The curses of the camel-drivers beating the animals; the cries of the hawkers who sold amulets against leprosy and the evil eye; the psalmody of the monks reciting verses of the Bible; the shrieking of the women who were prophesying; the shouting of the beggars singing old songs of the harem; the bleating of sheep; the braying of asses; the sailors calling tardy passengers; all these confused noises caused a deafening uproar, over which dominated the strident voices of the little naked negro boys, running about everywhere selling fresh dates. Thais
  • In doing so, He was not only claiming to be the preexistent Sovereign of the universe but prophesying that He would vindicate His claim by judging the very court that was now condemning Him. Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity
  • And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": (47) where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision. Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
  • We must maintain our visions, prophesy hope, and remain faithful and committed to the struggle, even and especially when facing so many daily apocalypses and forms of death.
  • And sometimes the anticipation of disaster is a self-fulfilling prophesy. THE SAVING GRACES
  • A prophesier of false things for since many a year hast thou been prophesying the downfall of this city, and now, when thy prophecy has come true, thou sorrowest and mournest. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
  • The other was called Epimetheus, because he always looked behind him, and did not boast at all; but said humbly, like the Irishman, that he had sooner prophesy after the event. The Water Babies
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  • Roth has long been pessimistic about the survival of the novel in a gaudy, short-attention-span culture, but his latest prophesy is one of his bleakest yet, predicting that the form will dwindle to a “cultic” minority enthusiasm within 25 years. Philip Roth gives novel a quarter of a century
  • Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced, and was prophesying a bumper harvest.
  • It is easy to prophesy after the event. 
  • My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy JimK Planet-x.com.au » My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy (JimK)
  • No matter what you prophesy, that doesn't change what I am, does it? A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • As he bore it patiently, and did not answer, they doubtless supposed they had discovered another reason to think he was an impostor; The word prophesy does not mean only to foretell future events -- although that is the proper meaning of the word; but also to declare anything that is unknown, or anything which cannot be known by natural knowledge, or without revelation. Barnes New Testament Notes
  • An American humourist has said, 'Never prophesy unless you know,' and many a writer on Roumania must wish that he had refrained from dealing with probabilities, or from prognosticating the coining events of history. Roumania Past and Present
  • Thou mightest as well prophesy that humane letters shall be cultivated in Caledonia, or the muse of Catullus spring up in the chill and unknown Rome in the First and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Though she was not a Rapturite per se, she was in contact with an alien being known as Alf, her source of prophesy, and Alf prayed to jaaaaysus. Confirmed: Despite Claim, Palin's Pay As Mayor Of Wasilla Went Up
  • He took great pleasure in prophesying that Mr. Rijnhart would in his next lifetime reappear on the earth as a buddha, as a reward for the good work he was doing in the present existence. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced, and was prophesying a bumper harvest.
  • The oracle's prophesy declares that Athens will one day conquer Thebes.
  • A particular prediction of a famine approaching, delivered by one of these prophets, his name Agabus; we read of him again prophesying Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • To suggest that there will be a shortage is a self fulfilling prophesy, if others believe you. Ammo Shortage: Panic Now! Beat the Rush!
  • They might spiritualize the prophesy and say that something spiritual happened that can't be seen, but nevertheless the prophecy was fulfilled," says Catherine Wessinger, a professor of religious studies at Loyola University New Orleans, who has written about apocalyptic movements. End of World Prophecy Attracts Followers, Provokes Ridicule
  • And sometimes the anticipation of disaster is a self-fulfilling prophesy. THE SAVING GRACES
  • It is easy to prophesy after the event. 
  • If you went into the trance, did the dance, whatever, then you were possessed of a spirit and "prophesying". Inspired Prophets and Lying Spirits
  • Singing the praises of God is here called prophesying (v. 1-3), not that all those who were employed in this service were honoured with the visions of God, or could foretel things to come. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
  • In some cases their clairvoyant powers were employed by chiefs for advice and prophesy.
  • Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of apocalyptic prophesy.

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