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IX. — THE PROPHETS INSPIRED BY THE HOLY GHOST.

The prophets are not just men who hear from God. They were taught the wisdom of God and from that wisdom they were able to prophecy the coming of wars, pestilences and famines. These prophets were taught by God to be holy and righteous. It is the character of the prophet to have the wisdom of God, and to have holiness and righteousness in their life.

But men of God carrying in them a holy spirit and becoming prophets, being inspired and made wise by God, became God-taught, and holy, and righteous. Wherefore they were also deemed worthy of receiving this reward, that they should become instruments of God, and contain the wisdom that is from Him, through which wisdom they uttered both what regarded the creation of the world and all other things. For they predicted also pestilences, and famines, and wars. And there was not one or two, but many, at various times and seasons among the Hebrews; and also among the Greeks there was the Sibyl; and they all have spoken things consistent and harmonious with each other, both what happened before them and what happened in their own time, and what things are now being fulfilled in our own day: wherefore we are persuaded also concerning the future things that they will fall out, as also the first have been accomplished.

~Theophilus- To Autolycus Book II Vol. 2 “Apostles and Prophets and their Teachings”


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