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1 I, 4 | WAS FORETOLD EVEN BY THE PROPHETS.~The prophets, who were 2 I, 4 | EVEN BY THE PROPHETS.~The prophets, who were very many, proclaim 3 I, 4 | do not think that these prophets are to be believed; for 4 I, 5 | us leave the testimony of prophets, lest a proof derived from 5 II, 9 | announcement; not to mention the prophets, who with one impulse and 6 II, 11| down by the oracles of the prophets, and contained in the sacred 7 II, 11| with the language of the prophets. If, therefore, the flood 8 II, 12| down the same thing as the prophets; and I add his words: "This 9 IV, 5 | V. THE ORACLES OF THE PROPHETS MUST BE LOOKED INTO; AND 10 IV, 5 | few things concerning the prophets, whose testimony I must 11 IV, 5 | understand the utterances of the prophets, but also most diligently 12 IV, 5 | Romans, the times of the prophets individually may also be 13 IV, 5 | greater antiquity are the prophets found to be than the Greek 14 IV, 6 | unanimous utterances of the prophets, but also by the declaration 15 IV, 8 | SPIRITS AND THE TESTIMONIES OF PROPHETS.~For we especially testify 16 IV, 8 | as He is called by the prophets father, so also He would 17 IV, 8 | sacred utterances of the prophets he will cease to wonder. 18 IV, 8 | powerful kings, and also prophets, may perhaps be known even 19 IV, 10| unless I shall show that the prophets before a long series of 20 IV, 11| Spirit, appointing them as prophets in the midst of the people, 21 IV, 11| they, when rebuked by the prophets, not only rejected their 22 IV, 11| their sins, they slew the prophets themselves with studied 23 IV, 11| sent to you my servants the prophets; I sent them before the 24 IV, 11| their backs, and slew Thy prophets which testified against 25 IV, 11| Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I only 26 IV, 11| He ceased to send to them prophets. But He commanded His own 27 IV, 11| their Lord and God, as the prophets had before foretold that 28 IV, 12| AND THE TESTIMONIES OF THE PROPHETS RESPECTING THESE THINGS.~ 29 IV, 12| incredible, had not the prophets many ages previously foretold 30 IV, 13| AND THE TESTIMONIES OF THE PROPHETS CONCERNING HIM.~Therefore 31 IV, 13| from the predictions of the prophets that He was both God and 32 IV, 13| those mira- cles which the prophets had foretold to them as 33 IV, 13| especially read above the other prophets, in the twenty-seventh Psalm 34 IV, 13| David himself and other prophets announced that of the house 35 IV, 13| referred the predictions of the prophets to him. Now Solomon received 36 IV, 13| father himself. But the prophets spoke of Him who was then 37 IV, 14| OF JESUS FORE TOLD BY THE PROPHETS.~From which things it is 38 IV, 14| is evident that all the prophets declared concerning Christ, 39 IV, 14| and when rebuked by the prophets did not choose to return 40 IV, 15| foretold even long ago by the prophets who announced Him; which 41 IV, 15| indeed the words of other prophets, and of Isaiah, saying: " 42 IV, 15| with the utterances of the prophets, which were read by the 43 IV, 15| and by His works. For the prophets spoke of Him; nor could 44 IV, 16| from heaven, and of the prophets, they caballed against Him, 45 IV, 16| torturing Him: of which the prophets had long before written. 46 IV, 16| foretold by the voice of the prophets; nor do they ever admit 47 IV, 16| part were foretold by the prophets: the first, obscure in humility 48 IV, 17| after the predictions of the prophets. For Micah announced that 49 IV, 17| of the heart of which the prophets speak, which God transferred 50 IV, 18| many ages before by His prophets, incited by these things, 51 IV, 18| by the utterances of the prophets and by the predictions of 52 IV, 18| these testimonies of the prophets foretold. In Esdras it is 53 IV, 19| had been foretold by the prophets. David says, in the fifteenth 54 IV, 19| the first of the twelve prophets, testified of His resurrection: " 55 IV, 20| that is, the secrets of the prophets; which before His suffering 56 IV, 20| Therefore Moses, and the prophets also themselves, call the 57 IV, 26| only the foretelling by the prophets, which preceded and was 58 IV, 29| is also spoken of by the prophets as the hand, and strength, 59 IV, 30| the prediction of false prophets, concerning whom both the 60 IV, 30| concerning whom both the true prophets and he himself had foretold, 61 V, 1 | without credit, because the prophets spoke in common and simple 62 V, 3 | had frequently read the prophets, and to whom the mystery 63 V, 3 | by the prediction of the prophets. He performed wonderful 64 V, 3 | supposed Him, if all the prophets did not with one accord 65 V, 3 | on the testimony of the prophets who long before foretold 66 V, 11| are they spoken of by the prophets as beasts. Therefore it 67 V, 19| Himself threatens by His prophets to the impious and the rebellious.~ 68 VI, 25| with us, that is, with the prophets, whom we follow, as much 69 VII, 1 | except by the teaching of prophets and God; and therefore he 70 VII, 7 | world was made by God: the prophets speak the same; and the 71 VII, 7 | learn the same from the prophets. Therefore Aristippus is 72 VII, 7 | dreadful abysses of mire: the prophets show the same thing. Therefore 73 VII, 13| allege the testimony of the prophets, whose system and divination 74 VII, 14| But the voices also of prophets of the world, agreeing with 75 VII, 14| things which are said by prophets and seers to be about to 76 VII, 15| the predictions of the prophets briefly announce under the 77 VII, 17| men with the books of the prophets, and thus burn them; and 78 VII, 18| thus take place, all the prophets have announced from the 79 VII, 19| in accordance with the prophets, announced as about to take 80 VII, 22| it partly agrees with the prophets: which is sufficient for 81 VII, 22| their error. For when the prophets proclaimed with continual 82 VII, 23| and life."~But if not only prophets, but even bards, and poets, 83 VII, 24| from this source,--that the prophets bring forward and speak 84 VII, 25| which are spoken of by the prophets as about to happen hereafter: 85 VII, 25| which are spoken by the prophets, for they foretold signs 86 VII, 26| the doctrine of the holy prophets which we Christians follow;