How To Use Prophetic In A Sentence

It was a throwaway remark that proved tragically prophetic.
he prophetically anticipated the disaster
It turned out to be a prophetic piece of journalism.
prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries
The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian

The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and apocalyptic literature.
Her early achievements were prophetic of her future greatness.
Her early achievements were prophetic of her future greatness.
He is considered as the architect of a distinct school of thought in the principles of jurisprudence and Islamic law, and one of the leading exponents of 'kalam'-scholastic theology - and' rijal '- study of the biographies of transmitters of ahadith, the prophetic traditions,' fiqh '- jurisprudence - and WN.com - Articles related to Emirates becomes first Arab airline to operate Czech Republic route
The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
How prophetic those words were, especially the last two points, written in 1966!
Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
Ultimately, anagogically, linear time ceases to hold sway and the prophetic soul perceives past, present and future as one.
He speaks about God from what we call the prophetic posture. CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2005
In the beginning of the article, he prophetically states, "The results are somewhat conflicting."
How about the Norse practice of dancing until going into a trance to be able to gain prophetic insights?
In any case, those words on self-criticism were prophetic. Times, Sunday Times
Analysis of the rhetorical strategies shows how prophetic religion in El Salvador was related to the political struggle between the oligarchy and the popular movements as the country descended into civil war.
They were the works of philosophers of the middle ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the famous friar who created the prophetic Brazen Head. The Birthmark
The author, then pursuing his comment upon Plato, observes, that "one of these manias may suffice (especially that which belongs to love) to lead back the soul to its first divinity and happiness; but that there is an intimate union with them all; and that the ordinary progress through which the soul ascends is, primarily, through the musical; next, through the telestic or mystic; thirdly, through the prophetic; and lastly, through the enthusiasm of love. Zanoni
At which Bernal threw his head back, hair streaming like an oriflamme… and gave an address, eloquent, passionate masterly, prophetic, which lasted 45 minutes.
Their work had an oracular or prophetic immediacy for a civilian population generally starved of real news about the war.
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Plato and the Stoics introduce divination as a godlike enthusiasm, the soul itself being of a divine constitution, and this prophetic faculty being inspiration, or an illapse of the divine knowledge into man; and so likewise they account for interpretation by dreams. Essays and Miscellanies
Plato here expresses four kinds of mania, by which I desire to understand enthusiasm and the inspiration of the gods: Firstly, the musical; secondly, the telestic or mystic; thirdly, the prophetic; and fourthly, that which belongs to love. Zanoni
In short, the traditionally separated out categories of science and religious enthusiasm were in the eighteenth century as mutually invasive as Newton's own scientific and prophetical modes of enquiry.
She ran over to the stereo and quickly hit the Next button, ending the strangely prophetical tune.
The prophetic is a literary mode long associated with Romanticism.
As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism.
This particular 'Fall of the Rate of Profit' is prophetic, as it marks the LAST; it is the launching of years of planning 'THE FINAL SOLUTION' to 'THE HUMAN PROBLEM' by capital and its allied agents from the past: the bourgeoisie AND the role-ified proletarian; the globalist banking elite; the exclusionary cartelist, cabalist, and cultist; the theocrat and tribalist, esp. from the Middle Eastern triad based in desert [ed] visions; the Fabian / Jacobin Latest posts @WeBlog.ro
Here are the prophetic calculations of this manuscript, with lacunae inserted within square brackets.
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If they're right they can pull their dusty prediction out of the archives and look prophetic.
The Road could be classified as science-fiction for the near-future setting and prophetic look of a world turned to ash, and it could be classified as horror for the suspense and direful moments the characters must endure -- two genres I'm sure McCarthy would prefer to keep at a distance from his work. Rabid Reads: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
His underlying point remains valid today, although, of course, we now hesitate to make historical statements about the narrative characters in the Elijah and Elisha prophetical stories.
The Book of Revelation, itself an heir to a long prophetic and chiliastic tradition, concludes with a vision of the New Jerusalem.
Even these early tales make it clear why Vance is still one of the most revered, read, and taught of science fiction authors, highlighting his blending of genres, forward-thinking and prophetic science, and careful craft. Subterranean Press » Latest Subterranean Press News
But what we shall be saying about it depends largely, I suppose, upon our definition of the term prophetic; also a little upon our feeling with regard to good taste and the permissible in fiction. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917
The theocracy needed a new form of prophetic gift: God-inspired (theopneustic) men must speak and act for God, the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She had once thought those lines referred to the river Axe, the sacred river that ran through the subterranean chambers and caverns and stalactites of the Cheddar gorge, but she now saw that the Alph of Xanadu was the Severn, and that the sunless sea was Coleridge's prophetic vision of the pewter post-nuclear wasteland of this estuary, spreading out westwards in the post-nuclear future towards the metallic fish-free Atlantic. Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
In Old English the word weird meant "fate" so calling the witches the weird sisters was equivalent to calling them prophetic.
On his next run, after a circuit or so of Exeter, my words were confirmed as cruelly prophetic.
Their work had an oracular or prophetic immediacy for a civilian population generally starved of real news about the war.
And so it is that this triptych of narratives involves prophetic individuals seeking a mystical connection with the world through creation.
Proclaiming a National Fast Day in 1863, he suggested, in full prophetic voice, that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. . . The Chosen Peoples
This ominous warning soon proved prophetic.
Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
Isn't this a very "churchy" thing which somehow ties up our energies in recruitment to something or other without really addressing the transformation or prophetic quality that the church needs to have in the world? Archbishop Praises Mission-Shaped Questions Book
There can be no question that the church assumed itself capable of authoritative prophetic utterances.
He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
He left Spain again, and in 1279 in Patras wrote his first prophetic book.
In fact, he calls all of us to a prophetic life-a life that witnesses to the power of the Spirit through the words we speak, the ways we serve, even the way we bear ourselves.
Those prophetical, apostolical admonitions are well known to all; what Solomon, Anatomy of Melancholy
He was a prophetic poet with an individual and social message for the age in which he lived.
Dr. Porter was an invalid, with the prophetic handkerchief bundling his throat, and his face "festooned" -- as I heard Hillard say once, speaking of one of our College professors -- in folds and wrinkles. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Already, in 1867, Ravaisson in his celebrated "Report" wrote these prophetic lines: "Many signs permit us to foresee in the near future a philosophical epoch of which the general character will be the predominance of what may be called spiritualist realism or positivism, having as generating principle the consciousness which the mind has in itself of an existence recognised as being the source and support of every other existence, being none other than its action. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson
It soon turned out to be a deserved rebuke to any who desponded, along with myself, and finally prophetic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
On this westmost promontory of the beautiful land -- the farthest point reached by the oldest civilisation of Egypt and Greece -- the Sibyl stood on her watch-tower, and gazed with prophetic eye upon the distant horizon, seeing beyond the light of the setting sun and "the baths of all the western stars" the dawn of a more wonderful future, and dreamt of a-- Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Within the WSA Progressive Satanism is not a church defined doctrine or prophetic decree imposed upon a mass of believers. Progressive Satanism? Satanic Insurance or an Cult! | Disinformation
A bright young man, his interest in intellectual pursuits was indulged by his father, and he moved first to Qazvin in 1000 AH/1591 and then to Isfahan in 1006 AH/1597, successive capitals of the Safavid empire, to pursue his study of philosophy, theology, the prophetic tradition, and Qur™anic hermeneutics and exegesis with the two pre-eminent teachers of his age, Mulla Sadra
Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
The second time around, she fulfilled her desire to anoint His head as well, this time not as an act of repentance, but as an act of love and prophetic insight.
Later, this curse was reaffirmed when Isaac blessed Jacob, and once more when Balaam pronounced a prophetic blessing on Israel as a nation.
Sometimes efforts are made to convince members that they really are not gifted teachers or musically talented or prophetically inclined as they believed they were.
The prophetic critique of primal Canaanite religion had the effect of desacralizing nature and divinizing morality.
The book of Revelation (and other prophetic verses in the Bible) provides important clues for understanding the rhetoric and actions of devout Christians who are influenced by apocalypticism and millennialism. Chip Berlet: Reading the Bible Belt Before Coming of Super Tuesday
Pastor Tom Hess, Dr. Niko, Pastor Johan and many world leaders will lead this prophetic journey.
The predominance of death in the novel is a prophetic adumbration of the real death which will bring the characters to God's love, and Eleanor is granted a vision of this when she meets Leopolda the Catholic nun on the night of the storm.
Well, it was eerily prophetic.
In response to a question on the mannerism of good counsel, Faraz Rabbani, a leading scholar of Islam, wrote: "Our age is an age where the Prophetic mercy, gentleness, gradualness, and wisdom need to predominate and condition any "promotion" of both virtue and law. Fahad Faruqui: Outward Appearance vs. Inward Morality: The Hypocrisy Of Misdirected Faith
I could never keep straight the prophetic meanings found in the Books of Daniel and Revelation.
Hellens did not like the portrait painted of him but later came to recognize its prophetic qualities.
And who are the most successfully prophetic when it comes to predicting the future?
As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism.
Very clearly he included it among the Prophets, along with Solomon's prophetic parable of love and the exilic and postexilic books of history, all of which were composed from a prophetic perspective.
We were to realize years later how prophetically he spoke on that occasion.
I have tried to show how the philosopher retains his prophetic character.
Mr. Davis, as if in prophetic vision, seemed to take in at a glance our growing and glorious Republic with its vine-clad hills, its mill-strewn vales, its sunlit homes, its wire-woven, iron-bound lands, and sail-wreathed oceans. Darkest America and the Way Out
Zacharias' prophetic words earlier made the same point, ‘God hath visited and redeemed his people, the dayspring from on high hath visited us’.
Retrenchment is written up as evident as the prophetic words of fire upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace -- _To let -- to let -- to let_. Olla Podrida
Islamic law, and one of the leading exponents of 'kalam'-scholastic theology - and' rijal '- study of the biographies of transmitters of ahadith, the prophetic traditions,' fiqh '- jurisprudence - and WN.com - Articles related to Emirates becomes first Arab airline to operate Czech Republic route
As to his subsistence during these rambles, it would be very difficult to say how he managed that affair, at these, or indeed at any other times; and it may be that the prophetic limitation of a fast to forty days is now the urgent occasion of his return from vagabondism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
His last words to his estranged son had a prophetic ring: ‘May the Lord spare me until I have taken vengeance upon you.’
Central to the prophetic tradition is its critique of religious rituals, beliefs and those who enforce them.
Did religion stand prophetically on the side of the poor demanding social justice (as some Christians believe Jesus did), or did religion forestall social reform, providing deadening consolation for economic injustice (as Karl Marx argued in speaking of religion as the “opiate of the masses”)? American Grace
His words sound eerily prophetic for the situation today.
-- OED ochlophobic ephemera: ABC & EP on abortion, seminaries, the thoughts of the dead, usual ochlophobic topics ... this opinion piece by ABC Williams does not articulate what I would consider by any means a sufficiently strong and clear stand against abortion, it strikes me as closer to a pro-life position than anything I have heard from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the issue, and strikes me as a more coherent position than the one articulated by +Bartholomew which was noted in Nearly identical in tone and spirit [to a statement made by an Armenian bishop], and lack of any clear, prophetic teaching are statements made by His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople when he visited San Francisco in 1990 as the metropolitan of Chalcedon as part of the entourage of the then Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory. The Ochlophobist
Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
God with any untruth; but what he calls deceiving, was only the concealing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical commission, the greatness of the evils which the execution of that commission was to bring upon him. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
Though this psalm is about God freeing the Israelites from slavery, it is prophetically also about our salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord.
It turned out to be a prophetic piece of journalism.
The prophetic books of the Bible can be but specimens of the prophesyings of that time.
He would have prophetically foreseen the emergence of a strong current of materialism and secularism from the core orientations of the preceding era which had been marked by the spirit of the enlightenment and in which the traditional values of the old world view had already begun to be shaken. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
One cannot truly proclaim a prophetic word until a priestly word has first been spoken!
He defied the wishes of his family concerning his career in a manner eerily prophetic of his son.
[8] In 2003, Tamaki, in what he described as a prophetic utterance, predicted that Destiny would be "ruling the nation" within five years. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
Nonetheless, a number of conclusions that he drew were almost prophetic.
Sometimes I try to think about having prophetic dreams, but it never happens.
Any writer can end up being prophetic, a predictor of the coming gloom.
He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
words that proved prophetic
We learn from II Mach., ii, 13, that at the time of Nehemias there existed a collection of books containing historical, prophetical, and psalmodic writings; since the collection is represented as unifrom, and since the portions were considered as certainly of Divine authority, we may infer that this characteristic was ascribed to all, at least in some degree. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
An oracle is a shrine or temple sanctuary consecrated to the worship and consultation of a prophetic god.
The debacle at the Dome has proved to be prophetic.
But their role in the new order was necessarily prophetic and minatory.
Dreamers might also experience prophetic dreams that they would convey to others to forestall danger.
There can be no question that the church assumed itself capable of authoritative prophetic utterances.
The ironic fan campaign to “save Dollhouse” launched way before the series even premiered is looking sadly prophetic. Will Dollhouse last?
To interpret his significance they turned to the Hebrew sacred books, the Mosaic law as well as the prophetic writings.
‘Liturgizing’ parts of the Scriptures, especially the prophetic sections, not only enshrines these potent passages; it also domesticates and defangs them of their power.
In the case of the augurs or haruspices of Rome, the animal was sacrificed to permit contemplation of the entrails for prophetic purposes.
His name has been synonymous with the phrase "prophetic imagination" for three decades of preachers and Christian teachers. Krista Tippett: The Prophetic Imagination Of Walter Brueggemann
Camenae, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient The Age of Chivalry
A young girl in the village experienced a prophetic vision.
It was a tradition of vatic utterance, such as that represented by Blake - the Blake of the prophetic books.
Dangerous times call for bold acts of empathy, prophetic visions of justice and mercy.
The Jewish canon thus lists as prophetical many biblical books we regard as merely historical or political: from Judges to Samuel to Kings.
But Mrs. Whishtablount knew a thing or two about religious people, especially the dangerous crowds that milled around in prophetic theme parks, and she alone realized the danger in which Santa now found himself. Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
No diplomat, no believer in machtpolitik, no moulder of prophetic phrases, what has this Kingston lawyer, of little reputation in his profession, this politician who left no memorable speech, this statesman best known for what he evaded doing, what place has he in such company? MacDonald's Greatness in His Times
We look with prophetic eyes over all the tumult, and see in the distance the radiant form of Liberty, bearing in her left hand the olive branch and in her right hand the sword, the holy victress, destined by treaty or conquest to bring the whole world under her sway. Prisoner for Blasphemy
The hypothetical prophetic comment from Prof. Adler regarding the enrolled bill rule, makes clear that someone has to be able to adjudge rank abuse of the Constitution by the “political department” with standing limited to a state, and original jurisdiction in SCOTUS (who will pass it off to a master or the DCCCOA). The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?
It had an ominous savour of destruction about it, messianic, prophetic, the last thing with which Daniel would have wanted to tempt fate. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
There has obviously been a conscious decision and determination on his part to make his life a fulfilment of prophetic utterance.
This description of the hostility which meets the ‘righteous poor man’ is a prophetic description of the Passion of Christ (and one clearly in the backs of the minds of the synoptic writers).
And all is told with an almost prophetic Biblical tone, with infinite foreboding and dark overtones.
Judaism, and strictly speaking, the term Judaism excludes the prophetic element as an active force in Jewish life. The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
The majority occur in the prophetic genre where often these words have a symbolic meaning of blessing or judgment.
His words prove prophetic, as the kid are left disappointed.
The photo finish judge was to prove his words prophetic.
I shall argue that it is this particular scroll movement in the midst of other royal, prophetic, priestly, and sapiential interests that gave decisive character to the entire Bible as the normative book.
As well as his annual almanac, he produced a series of astrological and prophetic pamphlets.
In the case of the augurs or haruspices of Rome, the animal was sacrificed to permit contemplation of the entrails for prophetic purposes.
Skywalker was torn by prophetic visions of his wife dying in childbirth.
He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
The main thing that fascinates in Frye is exactly his basic assumption - the quasi-anthropological approach he takes to literature, tracing its beginning to the two sides of an endlessly spinning coin - ritual and prophetic epiphany, and how they gave rise to mythmaking, and later - to the more familiar conventionalized forms of literature. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
About half of Bulgarians believe in telepathy, the evil eye and black magic, and that dreams can be prophetic.
Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The papal nuncio described the Tablet as ‘a living laboratory of the marvelous reality that is the prophetic mission of the laity in the Church.’
After noting the odd inconsequence of J. Sutter, the young, black, journalist-for-hire protagonist of John Henry Days — inconsequence, that is, compared to the folk hero of the title, and “the prophetic thunders and righteous wrath of Frederick Douglass and W.E. B. The Hamptons Renaissance
We were to realize years later how prophetically he spoke on that occasion.
These events function as pessimistic and prophetic metaphors, not optimistic of the future.
Revelation 17 speaks prophetically of earthly kings who will fight to establish their authority at the end of the ages.
Due to the significant emphasis on prophetic history, religious groups can become what he terms "historical societies" -- preserving, codifying and interpreting the religious histories of their founders. Joshua Stanton: 'History Centrism': A Challenge To Abrahamic Faiths
He clear vision, prophetic spirit and idiosyncratic musical style stand out in the Australian musical world.
Since we lack prophetic foresight, we cannot predict the outcomes of our decisions.
As the moral condition of the Jews required in each instance, so Messiah was exhibited in a corresponding phase, thus becoming more and more the soul of the nation's life: so that He is represented as the antitypical Israel (Isa 49: 3). unto David -- Hengstenberg observes that Isaiah dwells more on His prophetical and priestly office, which had already been partly set forth (De 18: 18; Ps 110: 4). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
His words looked to have a prophetic ring as the Scots came of age in an enthralling and ebbing battle of two sporting codes.
At the core of the prophetic text we find a word which seems contradictory, at least at first sight.
Plato expresses four kinds of Mania -- Firstly, the musical; secondly, the telestic or mystic; thirdly, the prophetic; and fourthly, that which belongs to Love. The Thing from the Lake
Blake saw the artist as a repository of the ‘prophetic genius’ which gave access to truth.
Kinôth was removed, as a poetic work, from the collection of prophetic books and placed among the Kethúhîm, or Hagiographa, cannot be quoted as a decisive argument against its Jeremiac origin, as the testimony of the Septuagint, the most important witness in the forum of Biblical criticism, must in a hundred other cases correct the decision of the Masorah. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
The winning coalition of line managers would become prophetic as they were to become more dominant in subsequent meetings.
Twenty-five years on, who can gainsay their prophetic analysis?
Today, revisiting the life of the town’s most celebrated citizen, the word Carthage sounds prophetic: to those who are familiar with her life, it seems apt that Virginia Cherrill should have emerged from a place connected by its name to the beautiful Queen Dido. Chaplin’s Girl
Popular Mechanics | The 10 most prophetic sci-fi movies ever O filme de FC perfeito é o santo graal dos cinéfilos amantes de ficção científica. Leituras
What Mr. Landes calls "tribal millennialism" is observable, he claims, in the case of the Xhosa in Africa, who in 1856 were persuaded by a young prophetic girl that their ancestors were returning to save them from the white man and to restore their cattle and crops to the great times of the past. Apocalypse Now And Then
Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible. Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café
Alan Vaughan was a psychic who claimed, among other wonders, to have prophetic dreams.
Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of apocalyptic prophecies.
There are sometimes moments as the Professor lounges at ease by the billabong, the perfect picture of recumbent indolence, when his sylvan reveries are crushed by a sense of sudden and prophetic dread.
When a man is disposed to receive the prophetic afflation of Correspondences, it rouses within him a perception of the Word; he comprehends that the creations are transformations only; his intellect is sharpened, a burning thirst takes possession of him which only Heaven can quench. Seraphita
The Old Testament itself speaks prophetically of Christ: ‘Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.’
In a future post, time permitting, I might go into these issues and also the question of the prophetic perfect and the precative perfect as poetic usages of SC2, but this necessarily brief survey gives the general idea. Ralph the Sacred River
The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
In Jewish thought a name is prophetic, determining and defining a person's character and personal history.
His visionary voice is potentially stifled by sorrow and grief, and he attempts to contain that dangerous erosion of his prophetic vision.
Orwell's theoretically skeptical prophetic meliorism resonates with much in Christianity, and especially Catholicism.
But alongside his prophetic insights were many idiosyncratic and sometimes silly arguments.
The knocking through the pipes, magnified by the absence of the radiator, was at once ominous, prophetic. THE LAST RAVEN
Hobbes's idea of a natural religion can fairly be described as deist, and his blend of deism and civil religion was to prove prophetic of much Enlightenment thinking.
But I think more important than the oracle at Delphi is Socrates' conviction that there is an inner prophetic voice speaking to him.
The prophetic word foretold the rise of false Christs, the coming of wars, famines, and earthquakes in "divers places. Our Day In the Light of Prophecy
Of the influence of a point of view even remotely akin to the priestly position that worship in this or that special place is of more value than anywhere else, and on that account alone deserves to be preserved, no trace is to be found in them; their polemic is a purely prophetic one, i.e., individual, "theopneust" in the sense that it is independent of all traditional and preconceived human opinions. Prolegomena
At Prophecy Update Jimmy DeYoung fills us in that:The word "earthquake" is used 19 times in the Bible, 13 times in the prophetic passages of the Word of God. Prophecy sites blame Japan disasters on all our sins
One thing is certain, just as the demon possessed Gadarene swine hurtled to their doom, these two sorry excuses for churches will do likewise, all the while congratulating themselves on their prophetic insight as they sink into the abyss. Heading over the cliff together « Anglican Samizdat
By the following Sunday, they had Doc working it into a prophetic conference, and in a board meeting the following month, Pastor Fell had indicated that he had a friend quite willing to appear from outer space in a sleigh or any other conveyance drawn by sheep, reindeer, goats, cats, stag beetles, or porpologulous rhygmachomps providing he was subsequently proclaimed king. Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
The painting is the inaugural work of an outstanding exhibition at Berlin's German Historical Museum called "Cassandra: Visions of Catastrophe 1914-1945," which documents an uncanny prophetic streak in German modernist art. Visions of Apocalypse and Transcendence
But this is the only factor absent from this prophetical jigsaw.
Only renewed, prophetic churches, churches true to the fundaments of the faith, living as communities of resistance, can meet their baptismal commitments to Rachel's children in this dangerous time.
The characters who populate Blake's prophetic books are not people so much as embodiments of the principles that shape the universe he believed he was reshaping with his art.
A young girl in the village experienced a prophetic vision.
Can we interpret their prophetic vision in a Scottish context?
He must fight singly to morrow with Hector, and is so prophetically proud of an heroycall cudgeling, that he raves in saying nothing. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
But what if the blackamoor is a prophetic symbol and there really is a missing text to the third secret? The man with the Blackamoor on his coat.
Christian aeon in their prophetic announcement of the Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology
We don't necessarily need prophetic foresight, just the ability to calculate what might result from our actions.
The words of later Hebrew mystics capture accurately prophetic consciousness.
See J.G. E. Pocock's typically conclusive summary: The ideal of politeness had first appeared in the restoration, where it formed part of the latitudinarian campaign to replace prophetic by sociable religiosity. Notes on 'Post-Secular Conviviality'
It was a narrow, ill-lighted, unventilated apartment, bitter with the after-taste of taxes, prophetically flavorous of taxes yet to be. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and apocalyptic literature.
He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
He revived but in part, and knowing that his moments were fast passing, he called the incensed captain, and before he had time to speak or strike, poured upon him such a flood of sublime and holy rebuke, rising to the grandeur of prophetic denunciation, and mingled with such melting pathos of entreaty, that the crime-steeped man was overwhelmed and fled from the scene. The Martyrs, and the Fugitive; or a Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son
The prophetic message consisted of three different portions: -- First, Sennacherib is apostrophized (2Ki 19: 21-28) in a highly poetical strain, admirably descriptive of the turgid vanity, haughty pretensions, and presumptuous impiety of the Assyrian despot. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Yet in the context of 1935, the closing words also seem strangely prophetic.
For my own part, however, I cannot recognise Shakspeare's spirit in this antagonism of creeds, which is, perhaps, even more strongly displayed in the prophetic speech of Cranmer's in the last scene, wherein he says, "God shall be truly known! Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
The historical Luther had the hero-spirit in him in high degree; he had mystical depth and inward experience as we have seen, and he possessed the prophetic power of vision and forereach which makes him often seem far in advance of his time; but these dynamic traits were more than overbalanced by his fundamentally conservative disposition and by his determination not to go faster or farther than he could carry Germany, especially the nobility, with him. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
To each parasha corresponds a division of the prophetic writings, called haphtara. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

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