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Chapter IX
The Prophets Inspired by the Holy Ghost
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.
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