Chapter, Paragraph

  1 Intro |            the rabbinic maxim, “No prophet prophesied save for the
  2 Intro |    inequality of treatment between prophet and prophet, with the longer
  3 Intro |      treatment between prophet and prophet, with the longer prophets
  4 1,2   |                 The Functions of a Prophet. ~ The prophet is not defined
  5 1,2   |      Functions of a Prophet. ~ The prophet is not defined or explained
  6 1,2   |          much the law-giver as the prophet par excellence (Deut. 18:
  7 1,2   |          popular conception of the prophet as primarily a foreteller
  8 1,2   |          of the true function of a prophet is given by Exod. 7:1f.
  9 1,2   |           given by Exod. 7:1f. The prophet is to God what Aaron was
 10 1,2   |          God.” In other words, the prophet is God’s spokesman. Speaking
 11 1,2   |            foretelling of the true prophet may normally be expected
 12 1,2   |           shows whether a man is a prophet or not. In any case the
 13 1,2   |        this there follows that the prophet speaks primarily to the
 14 1,2   |           social background of the prophet are a help to the understanding
 15 1,2   |           11). Though the ordinary prophet might not rise to Moses’
 16 1,2   |          it has a depth beyond the prophet’s own understanding of it (
 17 1,2   |    significance extends beyond the prophet’s own time, though its application
 18 1,4   | indignantly refuses to be called a prophet, if it involves his being
 19 1,4   |        classed with them: “I am no prophet, neither am I one of the
 20 1,5   |      poetry as well.~ At times the prophet became so unpopular that
 21 1,5   |           to be expected of a true prophet. The non-mention of such
 22 1,6   |         represent the whole of the prophet’s activities, even if we
 23 1,6   |            explanation is that the prophet only preserved those of
 24 1,6   |            the case of the earlier prophet especially when we consider
 25 1,6   |         was put together after the prophet’s death by Baruch. In ch.
 26 1,6   |       given definitive form by the prophet before his death. With Ezekiel
 27 1,6   |            every evidence that the prophet looked forward to publication
 28 1,6   |           were put together by the prophet himself.~ ~
 29 1,7   |          were not fulfilled in the prophet’s own time.~ For the latter,
 30 1,7   |          its non-fulfilment in the prophet’s time cannot be explained
 31 1,7   |            ample evidence that the prophet thought little of the evidential
 32 1,8   |            as wool, proclaimed the Prophet Isaiah (Is. 1:4‑6; 13; 18).~
 33 1,8   |            Is. 1:4‑6; 13; 18).~The Prophet Jeremiah castigates, and
 34 1,8   |            40:1‑2, 9-11).~Thus the Prophet Isaiah comforts, becoming
 35 1,8   |       those days of lamen­tation a prophet of God's future deliverance
 36 1,8   |           to a martyr's death (the Prophet Isaiah was sawn in two with
 37 1,8   |          about Christ by this same prophet, which Christ Himself used
 38 1,8   |        Lord (Is. 61:1‑2).~Does the prophet foresee that the Saviour
 39 2,3   |          and the revelation to the prophet of the nature of the Day
 40 2,4   |           applied to locusts.~ The prophet’s lesson is that there are
 41 2,6   |       other nations unknown to the prophet and to Israel. Immediately
 42 2,6   |      apocalyptic (see p. 115). The prophet does not know on what grounds
 43 3,7   |      destroyed his reputation as a prophet, so he asked to die (ver.
 44 4,2   |         indignant denial, “I am no prophet, neither am I one of the
 45 4,2   |           he was never an official prophet at all.~ Though Amos’ great
 46 4,2   |         known God’s appointment as prophet, yet in their opposition
 47 4,4   |             2:4), the rejection of prophet and Nazirite (2:11f), a
 48 4,6   |            that 4:4 represents the prophet’s exaggeration of normal
 49 4,8   |         verses (or 9:8-15) are the prophet’s addition as he records
 50 4,8   |   posterity. However pessimistic a prophet might be about his own generation,
 51 5,2   |         greater treasure. No other prophet comes nearer to the New
 52 5,3   |         collapse which the earlier prophet foretold is now an accomplished
 53 5,4   |          Exod. 21:32).~ Though the prophet’s message is God’s word
 54 5,4   |           first become part of the prophet (cf. p. 101). Nowhere in
 55 5,4   |            that will be because no prophet experienced the heart-break
 56 5,5   |           So He speaks through the prophet (6:4) “…your chesed is as
 57 5,6   |          15:23) does not imply the prophet’s approval of them; he is
 58 6,3   |           Old Testament in which a prophet is transported from his
 59 6,3   |            has to come through the prophet, and God limits Himself
 60 6,3   |          God limits Himself by the prophet’s ability to receive. This
 61 6,3   |           and circumstances of the prophet is stamped on every chapter
 62 6,7   |          quotation from an earlier prophet quoted also by Micah (cf.
 63 6,7   |          with the rejection of the prophet’s message and Jehovah’s
 64 6,7   |            the people (8:1-8). The prophet is denounced as a traitor,
 65 6,8   |        Many have failed to see the prophet’s call here, and have looked
 66 6,8   |           our understanding of the prophet’s message; it would seem
 67 6,0   |    explained. It is clear that the prophet’s appeal to the people had
 68 6,1   |               The Rejection of the Prophet (8:11-18). ~ While it is
 69 6,5   |        whether it is by an earlier prophet. 16:1 implies a strong ruler
 70 6,9   |           that is uppermost in the prophet’s mind.~ ~
 71 6,2   |           only became clear to the prophet himself as he received and
 72 6,3   |       others. “Quite so,” says the prophet. God’s “firstborn” may expect
 73 6,3   |           s power ever penned. The prophet’s vision of His greatness,
 74 6,5   |        does seem probable that the prophet only grasped the full implications
 75 6,5   |       realize the way in which the prophet’s revelation developed,
 76 6,6   |            of the return, that the prophet could be brought to this
 77 6,8   |            the impression that the prophet Isaiah wrote it at the foot
 78 6,8   |            though, as we know, the prophet Isaiah lived over seven
 79 6,8   |          27:46.~ ~In addition, the prophet Isaiah wrote the following
 80 6,8   |           rode into Jerusalem. The prophet Daniel also prophesied about
 81 6,8   |            chapter of his book the prophet Zechariah describes the
 82 6,8   |           have already seen in the Prophet Isaiah. It refers to the
 83 6,9   |    evermore” (Ps. 16:8-11). In the prophet Hosea there is a mention
 84 6,2   |           in Jerusalem. First, the prophet deals with the apparently
 85 6,3   |       chapters (deliberate, by the prophet, not accidental in transmission).
 86 6,5   |           first person plural. The prophet prays as the representative
 87 6,6   |             Isaiah is not only the prophet of the divine Redeemer,
 88 6,7   |        Isaiah. The older MS of the prophet must be dated about 150
 89 7,2   |          quotation from an earlier prophet.~ If we have interpreted
 90 7,3   |     fireworks probably reflect the prophet’s unpopularity, which forced
 91 7,5   |           with Immanuel. The older prophet had struck the note which
 92 7,6   |       social and religious, oi the prophet’s own time; text implies
 93 7,7   |    judgments have fallen. Then the prophet answers her (7:11ff), though
 94 8,2   |           go further back than the prophet’s father. On the other hand
 95 8,6   |           hardly possible that any prophet con­ceived of Jehovah’s
 96 9,1   |          own people—the only other prophet of which this is true is
 97 10,1  |          Chs. 1, 2.~1 — 1:2ff. The Prophet’s Complaint.~2 — 1:5-11.
 98 10,1  |           Answer.~3 — 1:12-17. The Prophet’s Protest.~4 — 2:1-5. God’
 99 10,2  |          The Author. ~ There is no prophet of whom less can be affirmed
100 10,2  |         from the book itself.~ The prophet begins (1:2ff) by complaining
101 10,2  |         interpretation is that the prophet is complaining about internal
102 10,2  |    instruments of punishment.~ The prophet then remonstrates with God (
103 10,2  |      really a prediction, but “the prophet throws himself dramatically
104 10,2  |           Habakkuk from an earlier prophet. Then 1:2ff and 1:12-17
105 10,2  |         perhaps the Egyptians; the prophet appeals to Jehovah (1:12-
106 10,4  |     suitable only if spoken by the prophet himself. As in Amos 1:3-
107 10,4  |         ver. 18ff — here it is the prophet that mocks Chaldean idolatry.
108 10,5  |            present reality for the prophet. So we should read present
109 10,5  |        effect of the vision on the prophet is inner distress (ver.
110 11,2  |                      The Neglected Prophet.~ If the length of a prophet’
111 11,2  |       Prophet.~ If the length of a prophet’s writings were any criterion
112 11,2  |          always a tendency for the prophet’s life to be­come part of
113 11,4  |            not been called to be a prophet. The contrast between him
114 11,7  |          things, which yet for the prophet are indistinguishable. Obviously
115 11,2  |      grossly false in religion. No prophet goes further in his rejection
116 11,4  |           been ill-disposed to the prophet, thanks to the biting condemnation
117 11,4  |      emerge again, vindicated as a prophet indeed (35:1, 11).~ ~
118 11,5  |          first. But the moment the prophet became a professional, attached
119 11,5  |    terrible consequences, when the prophet plays false. The remainder
120 11,5  |           be the expression of the prophet’s own desires (vers. 16,
121 11,5  |         were two signs of the true prophet: an outward — if his message
122 11,5  |           22); and an inward — the prophet’s knowledge that he had
123 11,6  |                The Moulding of the Prophet. ~ The dual pressure of
124 11,6  |          pretences into becoming a prophet, and then of having forced
125 11,6  |           the curtain falls on the prophet, rejected by family and
126 11,9  |       question presupposes not the prophet’s free choice of message,
127 11,9  |           and understanding of the prophet).~ The most obvious reason
128 11,0  |           unwilling to believe the prophet, they could n do without
129 12,2  |        would make Obadiah the only prophet prophesying on Judaean soil
130 12,2  |           possessions (ver. 17). A prophet’s vision of the future is
131 12,3  |        perfects of vers. 2, 6f the prophet is trans­ported to the future
132 13,1  |       Restoration.~1 — Ch. 33. The Prophet’s function.~2 — Ch. 34.
133 13,1  |      problems relate rather to the prophet’s personality and activi­
134 13,2  |          declares, “Jeremiah was a prophet who happened to be a priest;
135 13,2  |        priest who happened to be a prophet,” it is stating a real truth,
136 13,2  |          vocation by acting as His prophet.~ ~
137 13,4  |      already written roll. But the prophet does not merely deliver
138 13,4  |          is above all the pastoral prophet, the priest watching over
139 13,4  |        possible to reconstruct the prophet’s movements with any certainty;
140 13,4  |     ourselves to the position of a prophet in Babylonia hurling his
141 13,4  |            Ezekiel is the pastoral prophet; his task is the building
142 13,4  |      exiles themselves. Before the prophet could begin his building
143 13,4  |  strengthen the hands of the older prophet, so hated and so lonely.~ ~
144 13,5  |                                  A Prophet Restrained (3:22-27). ~
145 13,5  |             ver. 26) by making the prophet dumb, though from time to
146 13,5  |            lived out purely in the prophet’s mind. On the other hand,
147 13,7  |           opposition to Ezekiel as prophet, it had rapidly passed,
148 13,7  |        more to the priest than the prophet, that made it possible for
149 13,8  |            the intercession of the prophet is powerless to avert. God
150 13,8  |          city (ch. 10), though the prophet does not see their effect.~
151 13,0  |          back in Tel-Abib, and the prophet by two symbolic actions (
152 13,2  |            come, it is because the prophet has allowed himself to be
153 13,8  |                                The Prophet’s Recommissioning (Ch. 33). ~
154 13,2  |     perfectly kept law. But in the prophet’s vision the type loses
155 13,3  |       Apocalyptic. ~ As the Hebrew prophet looks further and further
156 13,3  |           the personal role of the prophet is, ap­parently at least,
157 13,3  |         more important is that the prophet’s guide and mentor is an
158 13,3  |    application is taken out of the prophet’s own time, for the vision
159 13,3  |         apocalyptic.~ Daniel was a prophet (Matt. 24:15), but prophecy
160 13,3  |          prophecy stretches from a prophet’s concern with the daily
161 14,1  |         diminishing regard for the prophet.~ 1. The religious Jew,
162 14,1  |            Urim and Thummim or the prophet through his dreams or clairvoyance.
163 14,1  |            to be suspicious of the prophet and to think himself his
164 14,1  |           the im­pression that the prophet was not expected until Mal.
165 14,1  |          Lord. In such a society a prophet was an anachronism.~ 4.
166 14,2  |            outside opposition, the prophet Haggai only the inner unwillingness.
167 14,3  |                                The Prophet Haggai and His Message. ~
168 14,3  |         Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet” (1:1, 3; 2:1, 10) instead
169 14,6  |          and third message another prophet, Zechariah, had arisen to
170 14,6  |   immediate sign is suggested. The prophet was speaking in December,
171 15,2  |     attributes Zech 11:12f to that prophet. Modern widely diverging
172 15,3  |                                The Prophet and his Message. ~ Zechariah
173 15,3  |           see p. 115) in which the prophet’s own time and the final
174 15,4  |         truths in the light of the prophet’s own time.~ The first and
175 15,4  |           fortable message for the prophet (vers. 14-17).~ Taken literally
176 15,4  |         tie down the vision to the prophet’s own time. The clue is
177 15,4  |        particular situation in the prophet’s own time is doubt­less
178 15,7  |        when one remembers that the prophet is acting allegorically (
179 15,7  |           and some­times it is the prophet, sometimes God, who speaks
180 16,2  |                                The Prophet and His Message. ~ Malachi
181 16,2  |       Malachi as a title which the Prophet gave himself, perhaps because
182 16,4  |       fairly be extracted from the prophet’s language.~ c) The most
183 16,4  |          can be no question of the prophet’s trying to bribe the people (
184 17,4  |       never had the stand­ing of a prophet, and will not have seen
185 17,6  |      imposture” (Pusey: Daniel the Prophet, p. 1.) It is in our Lord’
186 17,1  |             1:13f, R.V.).~ ~In the Prophet Daniel we also find more
187 17,3  |          weeks” (490 years).~ ~The Prophet Daniel wrote the prophecy
188 17,3  |           Jerusalem in 588 BC. The prophet Daniel knew, that the 70
189 17,3  |         captivity predicted by the prophet Jeremiah (in the 25th chapter
190 17,3  |       suddenly appeared before the prophet and said, that God had heard
191 17,3  |      Archangel Gabriel said to the Prophet Daniel:~ ~“Seventy times
192 17,3  |           be brought about and the prophet and prophecies would be
193 17,3  |            by the Archangel to the prophet Daniel, reigned “abomination