the prophets

For the time would fail me to recount Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and David and Samuel and the prophets, and what follows upon these.

and king he is shown to be, proclaimed both by children still untaught and by Jews unbelieving and ignorant, and heralded by the prophets themselves;

but as it was possible for us, fettered in the flesh, to hear, so the prophets spoke to us, the Lord bearing himself with us in a saving way toward the weakness of men.

" And many other such things the psalmist and all the prophets, initiated by the divine Spirit, proclaimed concerning the judgement and recompense to come;

"Yes indeed, my lord and king, this is the great mystery, hidden from the ages and from the generations, but in the last times made manifest to the race of men, whose manifestation many prophets and righteous men of old foretold by the grace of the divine Spirit, being initiated in many parts and in many ways;

So then, since the Savior commands these things, and the Prophets and Apostles proclaim them, and all the saints in deed and word press us toward the most unerring way of virtue, even if few are those who travel it and more are those who prefer the broad way that leads to destruction, the conduct of this godly philosophy will not be lessened on that account.

We are taught God by the prophets and by Christ, not by the philosophers nor by Epicurus.

Toward this benefit — not burden — of the law, to be aided, the same goodness of God ordained also the prophets, teaching things worthy of God:

but John was certain of no god besides the Creator, both as a Jew and as a prophet.

Here are the teachers and prophets who wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and the holes of the earth.

transfer your whole care upon the Lord, that you may be found where are the tens of thousands of angels, the assemblies of the firstborn, the thrones of the apostles, the seats of honour of the prophets, the sceptres of the patriarchs, the crowns of the martyrs, the praises of the righteous.

the maidens make music, the angels glorify, the prophets speak, a sound of music is sent forth;

but yet from the prophets too.

But the prophets and apostles do not so hand down that the world was made by God, by his only appearing and approaching Matter;

In short, an animal one brought forth by himself, proclaimed by the prophets, set in questions of prepositions—that is, sent forth through a virgin, not out of a virgin;

Meanwhile the Demiurge, still ignorant of all things—although he too will proclaim something through the prophets, not understanding even this work of his own (for they divide the prophetic patronage too among Achamoth, the seed, and the Demiurge)—when he received notice of the coming of Soter, hastily and exultingly runs up with all his forces, the centurion of the gospel.

That to no soul whatever do the lower regions lie open, the Lord sufficiently sanctioned in that argument of the poor man reposing and the rich man groaning, in the person of Abraham, that no reporter of the infernal disposition could be sent back thence — which even then might have been permitted, that Moses and the prophets might be believed.

David is harassed, Elias put to flight, Jeremiah stoned, Isaiah sawn asunder, Zechariah butchered between the altar and the temple, assigning to the flints the perennial stains of his own gore.

But thereafter too every mouth of the prophets sounds with the voices of the same God, heaping up his same Law by the renewal of the same precepts, and denouncing nothing first so principally as to beware of all making and worship of idols;