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Chapter XVII.—The Impious See True Dreams and
Visions.
“But it is manifest that the impious see
true visions and dreams, and I can prove it from Scripture.
Finally, then, it is written in the law, how Abimelech, who was
impious, wished to defile the wife of just Abraham by intercourse, and
how he heard the commandment from God in his sleep, as the Scripture
saith, not to touch her,1353
because she was
dwelling with her husband. Pharaoh, also an impious man, saw a
dream in regard to the fulness and thinness of the ears of
corn,1354
to whom Joseph said, when he gave the
interpretation, that the dream had come from God.1355
Nebuchadnezzar, who worshipped
images, and ordered those who worshipped God to be cast into fire, saw
a dream1356
extending over
the whole age of the world.1357
| 1357 Lit., of the whole
length of the age. | And let
no one say, ‘No one who is impious sees a vision when
awake.’ That is false. Nebuchadnezzar himself, having
ordered three men to be cast into fire, saw a fourth when he looked
into the furnace, and said, ‘I see the fourth as the Son of
God.’1358
And
nevertheless, though they saw apparitions, visions, and dreams, they
were impious. Thus, we cannot infer with absolute certainty that
the man who has seen visions, and dreams, and apparitions, is
undoubtedly pious. For in the case of the pious man, the truth
gushes up natural and pure1359
| 1359 We have
amended this passage. The text applies the words “natural
or innate and pure” to the mind. | in his mind, not
worked up through dreams, but granted to the good through
intelligence.
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