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| Chapter IX.—The Testimony of the Prophets.
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If we satisfied ourselves with advancing such
considerations as these, our doctrines might by some be looked
upon as human. But, since the voices of the prophets confirm our
arguments—for I think that you also, with your great zeal for
knowledge, and your great attainments in learning, cannot be ignorant
of the writings either of Moses or of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the
other prophets, who, lifted in ecstasy above the natural operations
of their minds by the impulses of the Divine Spirit, uttered the
things with which they were inspired, the Spirit making use of them
as a flute-player722
| 722 [Kaye,
179. An important comment; comp. cap. vii., supra.] |
breathes into a flute;—what, then, do these men say? “The
Lord is our God; no other can
be compared with Him.”723
And again: “I am
God, the first and the last, and besides Me there is no God.”724
In like
manner: “Before Me there was no other God, and after Me there
shall be none; I am God, and there is none besides Me.”725
And as to His greatness: “Heaven is My throne, and the earth is
the footstool of My feet: what house will ye build for Me, or what is
the place of My rest?”726
But I leave it to you, when you meet with the
books themselves, to examine carefully the prophecies contained in them,
that you may on fitting grounds defend us from the abuse cast upon us.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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