Word Finder - prophesying

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To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.

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To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).

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To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

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To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.

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A prophecy.

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A religious meeting to discuss parts of Scripture and their possible use in sermons.

They were at pains to insist upon purity of heart and life as an indispensable condition for success in prophesying and to enlist piety in the service of morality.

So prophesying on that occasion was speaking for God in a way that formed part of someone's guidance.

His most popular works, The Liberty of Prophesying, Holy Living, and Holy Dying have been often reprinted.

In 1646 appeared his famous plea for toleration, eeoXoyia 'EKXEKTLKii, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying.

He means this - that he is no mere ecstatic enthusiast or "dervish," whose primary aim is to keep up the warlike spirit of the people, taking for granted that Yahweh is on the people's side, and that he is perfectly free from the taint of selfishness, not having to support himself by his prophesying.

In large towns these were to be also on other days, with a weekly meeting for conference or "prophesying."

Far from prophesying the Advent of the Quran, Isaiah is simply referring to the Assyrian takeover of Ephraim.

The best recognized function of German astronomers in that day was the construction of prophesying almanacs, greedily bought by a credulous public. Kepler thus found that the first duties required of him were of an astrological nature, and set himself with characteristic alacrity to master the rules of the art as laid down by Ptolemy and Cardan.

In church it is best that he should confine himself to prophesying, for that brings to others "edification and comfort and consolation."

Amos, it appears, though himself a Judahite, had been prophesying in the northern kingdom, when his activity was brought to an abrupt close by the head priest of the royal sanctuary at Bethel, Amaziah, who bade him escape to the land of Judah and get his living there.

He died a broken-hearted man, prophesying the inevitable ruin of a nation which he himself had done so much to demoralize.

With the prophets it is quite otherwise; they appear not individually but in bands; their prophesying is a united exercise accompanied by music, and seemingly dance-music; it is marked by strong excitement, which sometimes acts contagiously, and may be so powerful that he who is seized by it is unable to stand, 2 and, though this condition is regarded as produced by a divine afflatus, it is matter of ironical comment when a prominent man like Saul is found to be thus affected.

In consequence of prophesying the death of the king and the end of the monarchy, he was arrested for treason in 1 795, and confined as a criminal lunatic. His case was, however, brought before parliament by his ardent disciple, Nathaniel Halhed, the orientalist, a member of the House of Commons, and he was removed to a private asylum in Islington.