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Sentence Examples But because Isaiah is the major prophet, only he is mentioned while Malachi, as a minor prophet, is not. When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation. Where divination is by trance-mediumship the prophet is often a stranger, a person deemed free from partisan interests. At last, the Hebrews have hearkened unto that voice in the wilderness, that great prophet who came down off the mountain. Anyone who can tell you how long to hang game, or any meat, unless you are using a butcher's chiller, is either a liar or a prophet. It means the prophet has entered such a high plane of understanding that he or she is able to communicate with the Infinite. Franklin was the homespun wit, Jefferson the far-reaching pen, Adams the sober prophet behind the revolutionary moment. The same God who sent ravens to feed his prophet had used the most unlikely person in the town to meet our need. His writing has more the intensity of an Old Testament prophet pointing out the pretensions of worldly kings. These possibilities and actualities turn Berry from a doomsaying prophet into a trusted guide and even a friend, a sharer of hope. Of course, by the early 1990s, you didn't need to be a prophet to foresee the fate of the Left. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi was one of the great Talmudic sages, a man so holy he merited visitations from the prophet Eliyahu. Or a lot of people consider him a holy man, a prophet, and a hero, and they don't want your filthy Yanqui money anyway. Founded in 1911 by the Zulu prophet Isaiah Shembe, the Nazareth Baptist Church abides by Shembe's teachings. In the year 879 Saul is anointed as king by the prophet Samuel in accordance with the wishes of the people. This is necessary because the Messiah will be a king, and a king can be anointed only by a prophet. They refuse to see that the social conciliation preached by the prophet hardly survived his death. Such rapprochement is tempered, however, as the novels identify the replacement pope as the Antichrist's false prophet. The prophet Amos reminds us that, like us, the Ethiopians, Philistines, and Arameans have roles in God's plan. They prepared the way for the Romantics to take up poetry as prophecy, the poet as prophet. Show More Sentences The mosque is the third holiest site for Muslims and is supposedly the place from where the prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven. At each meeting they cast lots to decide who should be priest, bishop or prophet for the day. He became convinced by his reading of astrological and prophet texts that the end of the century would bring a period of great upheaval. The old French prophet has foreseen England beating Italy in the world cup final! He was the last major prophet to teach all the Israelite tribes before they began to scatter from the Holy Land. The true prophet does not foretell an inevitable future, but warns of likely consequences should a present course of action continue. There is no need for a nameless Persian Baha'i family to come to blows over the fact that Jesus was a great prophet. If a prophet advocated belief in God's oneness and used a different name of God, that would be confusing to the addressees. Having been barred from entrance into the temple precincts, the prophet dictates his message to Baruch. But now imagine their reaction as God sends the prophet Ezekiel with a message of hope. I think the other were convinced that this guy was some sort of psychic or mind-reader or prophet because they took his word as fact. Biblically regarding taxes, the prophet Samuel stated a 10-percent rate is appropriate. So, too, is David trapped when the prophet Nathan uses a story to catch his king's conscience. This coincidence threw the prophet almost into a frenzy, and the poor people were all of a tremble. He thrust the latest missal back into the hands of the descendant of the prophet. How were they to know that this minor Nazarene prophet would cause such a fuss? Sheikh Mo, who fancies himself a prophet of modernisation, likes to impress visitors with clever proverbs and heavy aphorisms. It was here in the 19th century that the famous Xhosa prophet and diviner Nxele attempted a resurrection. At key moments in her writing, it is clear that she recognized herself as a visionary and a prophet of the first order. Anyone who is sick, or poor, or generally pathetic would lack credibility as a prophet. Show More Sentences It does not need a prophet to predict that history presented that way will encourage many readers to dig deeper. The insitutor of it was the great prophet Elias, who three times made fire come down from heaven to punish the Idolaters. Into this confusion, another so-called prophet, William Edson Jessop, is making a power play. The Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue, built to honor the prophet Elijah, had existed at least since medieval times. He called himself the prophet Immanuel and took to preaching in the streets. Thunder and lightning, therefore, could be viewed either as the voice of the vengeful prophet chasing demons or as the precursor of rain for thirsty crops. And then it started to pour down rain, so I trudged back to my car like some wild-eyed prophet, taunted by the laughing kookaburras as I passed them. Like me, he no longer believed that Joseph Smith, the polygamist founder of the Mormon church, was a prophet of God. If the inexpressibly terrible is a sign of modern times, then Goya is not the prophet of modernity but the ultimate foreseer of the modern nightmare. After hearing the blasphemous clips insulting our beloved prophet, I would not hesitate to go after revenge. In his proclamation of the birth of the messianic child and its reign of peace without end, the prophet gave new hope to a deeply oppressed and depressed people. He insisted on representing himself at his trial, and wore a white sheet wrapped around him like a toga during closing arguments, insisting he was a prophet. According to Bergel, Native American legend says that Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee warrior and prophet, put the curse on General William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe. The inspired prophet cannot even get the number of Seven Sleepers correct, so the compilers of this latest rubbish send in a new revelation from Allah. You don't have to be a prophet to predict what happens next. Although there are occasional contemporary references most of the text reads like a pastiche of an Old Testament prophet and much of the language and imagery is Biblical. This vision set in motion a train of visitations by angelic ministrants directing the young prophet in the process of restoring the gospel of Jesus Christ. I wish we would stop seeing him as either the prophet who will deliver us or the pragmatist who will deny us. Service is the first major biographer of Trotsky to portray him as myopic villain instead of defeated prophet. Those youth who conducted the operations did not accept any fiqh in the popular terms, but they accepted the fiqh that the prophet Muhammad brought. Show More Sentences We'll see if Shaheen proves correct on Sunday, or if the Germans can get a win for Paul, the OG prophet. After achieving fame through great struggle, an artist soon narcissistically focuses on his own success story, assuming the status of some sort of pop prophet. Gunmen reportedly asked hostages if they could recite passages from the quran and to name the prophet Mohamed's mother. I try to be tolerant of Muslims' reverence for their prophet and support their right to peaceably assemble over it. The Torah speaks of the evil prophet Bilaam praising the Israelites for dwelling arrangements that prevented unwanted intrusions and other invasions of privacy. This fallacy is based on the misconception that the Holy Prophet was ordered to be obeyed in his capacity of a ruler, and not in the capacity of a prophet or messenger. I want no philosopher queen or king, no prophet exuding revealed truth, no mesmerising Pied Piper, no hawker of appealing mirages, no self-absorbed hankerer for power. The reason behind this was the division among the tribes and the absence of a strong central authority in Yemen during the days of the prophet. They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. Thoreau, too, come to think of it, was, by way of being a prophet, a pioneer in this Emancipation of Man from Bothery. A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman. This hagiographic theme draws on the Biblical account of the staff of the prophet Moses. George with the prophet Elijah, at Lydda confound his legend with one about Christ himself. Spike Milligan plays a prophet, ignored because his acolytes are chasing after Brian. Shias believe that Ali succeeded the prophet Muhammad as leader of the Ummah. But for now, there is no prophet amongst the politicians, and the only prophecies to be heard are of nakbas and holocausts. The Armes Prydein is also significant as one of the earliest mentions of the prophet Myrddin Wyllt. Odysseus then summoned the spirit of the prophet Tiresias for advice on how to appease Poseidon upon his return home. He then travelled the known world in search of the Water of Life and Immortality, eventually becoming a prophet. Luther was the most widely read author of his generation, and within Germany he acquired the status of a prophet. Show More Sentences He immediately removed any doubts about Zwingli's orthodoxy and defended him as a prophet and a martyr. They both professed to interpret Adam Smith as the true prophet, and represented different shades of opinion rather than diverging sects. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. Her crime, blaspheming the prophet, carries a mandatory death sentence. In South Asia, the Sufi music tradition is called Qawwali, which too is devoted to the love of God, prophet and his companions. Baha'ism was founded in Iran in 1863 by Bahaullah, who is viewed as a prophet in the faith. Aksyonov, a dissident writer who emigrated to America shortly after the book's samizdat publication, is now lauded as a prophet. The code name is a misspelling of Habakkuk, a minor prophet in the Old Testament. Sharon, 54, admitted suggesting the hijab was a form of bondage but said Mrs Tazi insulted Jesus by calling him a minor prophet. But so are plenty of histories that try to attack the prophet. He devotes considerable space to assessing the philosopher Giovanni Gentile's neo-Hegelian view of Giuseppe Mazzini, the prophet of Italian unification. The motif of a prophet, theurgist, or holy man seeking an immortal, often by ascending to heaven, in order to receive esoteric knowledge is one common in late antiquity. But then, it is always easy for the scrying prophet to predict the past. The Bahais consider Bahaullah, born in 1817, to be the latest prophet sent by God and believe in the spiritual unity of all religions and all mankind. It is where a group of Jinn offered allegiance pledge to the prophet. The widow's cruse reminds us of God's graciousness to a woman so poor she couldn't feed her son, much less a wandering prophet who came asking for bread. Coming down from Mount Sinai, for instance, she came to a place she identifies as Horeb, the site to which the prophet Elias came after he had fled from King Achab. Not that this worries David Cameron any more than it particularly bothered the New Labour apparatchiks, including the premier prophet of independence gloom, Alistair Darling. Though the Muse of higher learning cannot be cloned, she allows the prophet, rebel, and poet to soar, and the scholiast to weave intricate threadworks of commentary and gloss. He had forgotten that a prophet is without honor under his own rooftree. Show More Sentences I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. After its establishment, each subsequent prophet and leader of the church have received the authority passed down by the laying on of hands, or through apostolic succession. Even the prophet Mohammed is said to have praised the narcissus. A 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of Maurice the Minotaur, in which Manson played a prophet, was awarded a Fringe First award by The Scotsman newspaper. While performing the anointing, the Archbishop recites a consecratory formula recalling the anointing of King Solomon by Nathan the prophet and Zadok the priest. And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet. The prophet of Germany's Islampolitik was Baron Max von Oppenheim. Not that the Reverend James is absolutely a pretentious gasbag any more than Marchbanks is an inspired prophet. He has a definite, a positive part in the world's work. That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad is a form of blasphemy. Examples from Classical Literature Time, the destroyer and fulfiller of predictions, has proved that his Lordship was a false prophet. Joseph Smith, the prophet, was the promulgator under God of these principles. The word for prophet implies an inspired singer rather than a soothsayer or seer. A doubt he expressed as to the healthiness of a consumptive-looking child brought him at her death the honors of a prophet. His words were the words of a constructer and prophet, as well as the words of a forward-driving warrior. He is the great prophet of future art, as well as the consummator of the realistic vision of his time. Gus's reputation as a prophet was established, for Corker himself seemed pleased with the cottonian version of Herodotus. But in the mean time, as any prophet might have foreseen, a social democrat had been developed. But Hosein by Fatima his mother was grandson of the prophet, and this produced an astonishing effect upon the mind of the woman. In this he was a disciple of Bacon and Comenius, and a prophet to Pestalozzi. Though Strabo was a great historian, it is evident that he was not a prophet. At best they can only interpret the mind of the prophet, and can have no objective value. There is not much in the figure of our pendentive to suggest the stern and fearless prophet of the wilderness. This priesthood is composed of a president, in whom is combined prophet, seer or revelator of the church. And the rest of the acts of abia, and of his ways and works, are written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet. But there was something of the chieftain, something of the prophet, about him. These published sermons therefore are little better than synopses of what the prophet said, and necessarily imperfect. Why does the prophet look in the direction of Edom for the return of his God? It needed no prophet to read the countenance of the dread apparition in the entryway. I don't wish to claim the character of 'vates' the prophet, but were they not a little prophetic? Show More Sentences There was an attempt to line up the prophet to add to the theatric effect, says the report. His father therefore could not have been Ahijah the prophet, who was an Ephraimite. It puts to death with the same ruthless equality the prophet and the atavist. If you ask idle questions, you merely risk your soul, as do the followers of Mahound, the false prophet. Treitschke is the prophet of tribalism, Nietzsche of ruthlessness, Bernhardi of ambition. I'm willing to risk my reputation as a prophet and say that the dawn will come with rain. The name of angel is given to the prophet Nathan, who reproved David for his sin. The prophet Micah was struck with the energy and devotion of the heathen to their gods. Thus finding utterance as the prophet of God, he consummates his mission and takes his place in the world order. Macaulay was not only a typical Whig, but the prophet of Whiggism to his generation. Youll be ung, said the Marine, who was a wit, and by the same token something of a prophet. With the failure of a prophet to convince landlords and farmers, codling felt that his weak-kneedness might be justified. He was to the end of the chapter a recognized prophet, an uplifter and leader. But just because he is the prophet, the uplifter, the proclaimer, Tolstoy is no longer the merely Russian writer. Now, returning to the oracle, we find that Moses is not a prophet or nabi in this sense. Besides, how came it to pass that this prophet did not foreknow his own death at the first? If I had been a prophet I should have been forewarned and, consequently, forearmed. I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. The great prophet of Allah, however, knew a good cat when he saw it. The surest method of allaying a storm is to throw a prophet overboard. Show More Sentences The second prophet of Amon, and then his companions, turned toward them. The governor of astrachan had been but too faithful a prophet. Here, too, is part of Aaron's rod, and a lock of hair from Elisha the prophet. The prophet Daniel speaks more than once of the magicians of Babylon. What, think you, would Bellamy the prophet have made of you, Humphrey? It is a poor prophet that has but one birthplace and one tomb. The prophet who emerges with the most honour from this war is Bloch. He is rather the prophet of what is to be than the celebrator of what is. In Zululand he was literally surrounded by radical pietists, charismatics, each group usually led by a prophet or a prophetess. It was an acknowledged sign of a true prophet to be a discerner of hearts. She is preacher, prophet, and dispenser of amiability, all in one. Long ago oppressor and oppressed, prophet and scorner, had been dust. He was the prophet of a new order, the evangel of a new faith. You cannot argue with a fatalist, any more than with a prophet. Well, they are kindly souls and have forborne to taunt the prophet! After this scene in Gilgal, the king and the prophet avoided each other. It is not so generally recognized that he is the prophet of Hellenism. He is of the type of the skald, the bard, the seer, the prophet. The part of the hierophant was taken by the false prophet himself. The soothsaying Glaucus was a prophet, and gave oracles at Delos. Show More Sentences It came with this precious prophet, or whatever he calls himself, who taught her to stare at the hot sun with the naked eye. There he a prophet of Kauai, named Kaneakalau, who asked him who he was. The newest prophet, even, is of a sight more consequence than the oldest patriarch. The prophet telling his prophecy is the very Figure of the supersensible. Thus, to establish the divine status of Tyrian kings, Woolmer quotes the prophet Ezekiel, who spoke of the Tyrian king as claiming to be god. Not a solitary commoner ever has the luck to see a reception of a prophet, I can tell you. There lieth Tobit the prophet, of whom Holy Writ speaketh of. I have had to say that God is God, and that Mahomet is the prophet. Was there no prophet, no redemption, no mediator for such as these? And the under secretary was called on to hear every prophet! The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer, and therefore it gets spoken. To be a prophet is, and ever has been, an unthankful office. The wealth of Nineveh is called endless by the prophet Nahum. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend. Greatest, said Galen, is the physis, and Hippocrates is its prophet. Any fool of a prophet must hit the bull's eye at least once in a life. The world is quick to turn and rend with ridicule a false prophet. I have vowed not to accept again the responsibleness of a prophet. The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. Smith was successively first elder, prophet, seer, and revelator. Show More Sentences It is little help to see the prophet as a prognosticator or a soothsayer. During the exile in Babylonia, the prophet had kept the word of God resounding in their hearts with promises of comfort, reconciliation and a new beginning. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet. But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves. They gave it reluctantly and in a very fragmentary condition, for, having been shamefully humbugged by their prophet, they felt humiliated and unhappy. You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias, whose reason is still unshaken. He later defends her against accusations of unchastity and announces that he is a prophet, a servant of God, who has been blessed by God and given a book of revelation. Then I remembered what the blind Theban prophet Teiresias had told me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe had warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun-god. According to Clark, the devil, while usually silent, occasionally takes over the omniscient narrator in the way the angel Gibreel possesses the prophet Mahound. No one here really thought she had blasphemed the prophet Mohammed. We found afterwards that we had come near seeing another patriarch, and likewise a genuine prophet besides, but at the last moment they sent regrets. What the prophet, the poet, the reformer, the criminal, or any other man with human yearnings, but separated from the multitude by a peculiar lot, might feel, poor Owen felt. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of prophet? Words that rhyme with prophet What is the plural of prophet? What is the adverb for prophet? What is the adjective for prophet? What is the noun for prophet? Translations for prophet Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words prophesying prophesy prophesized prophesies prophesier prophesied Prophet prophetess prophetesses prophethood prophetic prophetical 7-letter Words Starting With p pr pro prop proph prophe