What is "prophets"

Usage examples of "prophets".

He may have dreaded, likewise, lest they should give way to that same luxury and profligacy in which the Israelites indulged - and especially lest they should be demoralized by that drunkenness of which the prophets speak, as one of the crying sins of that age.

And we, as Christians, know, or ought to know, far more of God than did even prophets or psalmists.

Had Jesus been like too many, who since his time have fancied themselves saints and prophets, would he not have rather cursed the city than wept over it with tenderness, regret, sorrow, most human and most divine, for that horrible destruction which before forty years were past would sweep it off the face of the earth, and leave not one stone of those glorious buildings on another?

I find so many great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a fraternity.

Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order.

Although grief and confusion are understandable, the Prophets tell us to search for true meaning within our lives.

He thought that this was either the sign from the Prophets he had been waiting for, or proof positive that he was too insane to help anyone.

When the beam shot from the other side, there were expressions of surprise, because Orbs of the Prophets did not usually behave like beamed weapons.

Servant of the Prophets, rejoice that our Masters will grant proof of their Benevolence on the Seventh Day of Circles.

It was ten minutes later that he realized that the Koran was almost a word-for-word clone of what all the Jewish prophets had scribbled down, divinely inspired to do so, of course, because they said so.

All our knowledge, it is true, is defective, and yet prophets have been favored with the gift of looking into the future, magic powers have been vouchsafed to mortals.

My father, now in Osiris, a worthier highpriest than I, was charged by the Prophets to entreat his father to give up the guilty project of connecting the north sea by a navigable channel with the unclean waters of the Red Sea.