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Spirit and Prophecy

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Spirit in prophets and apostles.

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Hermas — Shepherd — Mandates Mand.11

Hermas · fl. c. 140 AD · Shepherd — Mandates

These, says he, are the faithful, and he who sits on the chair is a false prophet, ruining the minds of the servants of God. It is the doubters, not the faithful, that he ruins.

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Justin Martyr — Dialogue with Trypho 7

Justin Martyr · c. 100–c. 165 AD · Dialogue with Trypho

Old Man: There existed, long before this time, certain men more ancient than all those who are esteemed philosophers, both righteous and beloved by God, who spoke by the Divine Spirit, and foretold events which would take place, and which are now taking place. They are called prophets.

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Justin Martyr — First Apology 33

Justin Martyr · c. 100–c. 165 AD · First Apology

And hear again how Isaiah in express words foretold that He should be born of a virgin; for he spoke thus: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bring forth a son, and they shall say for His name, 'God with us.' Isaiah 7:14 For things which were incredible and seemed impossible with men, these God predicted by the…

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Justin Martyr — First Apology 36

Justin Martyr · c. 100–c. 165 AD · First Apology

But when you hear the utterances of the prophets spoken as it were personally, you must not suppose that they are spoken by the inspired themselves, but by the Divine Word who moves them.

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Ὅταν δὲ τὰς λέξεις τῶν προφητῶν λεγομένας ὡς ἀπὸ προσώπου ἀκούητε, μὴ (??)π᾿ αὐτῶν τῶν ἐμπεπνευσμένων λέγεσθαι νομίσητε, ἀλλ᾿ ἀπὸ τοῦ κινοῦντος αὐτοὺς θείου λόγου.

Justin Martyr — First Apology 44

Justin Martyr · c. 100–c. 165 AD · First Apology

And the holy Spirit of prophecy taught us this, telling us by Moses that God spoke thus to the man first created: Behold, before your face are good and evil: choose the good.

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Ἐδίδαξε δὲ ἡμᾶς ταῦτα τὸ ἅγιον προφητικὸν πνεῦμα, διὰ Μωϋσέως φῆσαν τῷ πρώτῳ πλασθέντι ἀνθρώπῳ εἰρῆσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ οὕτως· „Ἰδοὺ πρὸ προσώπου σου τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ κακόν, ἔκλεξαι τὸ ἀγαθόν“.

Athenagoras — Plea for the Christians 10

Athenagoras · fl. c. 177 AD · Plea for the Christians

That we are not atheists, therefore, seeing that we acknowledge one God, uncreated, eternal, invisible, impassible, incomprehensible, illimitable, who is apprehended by the understanding only and the reason, who is encompassed by light, and beauty, and spirit, and power ineffable, by whom the universe has been created…

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Athenagoras — Plea for the Christians 7

Athenagoras · fl. c. 177 AD · Plea for the Christians

But we have for witnesses of the things we apprehend and believe, prophets, men who have pronounced concerning God and the things of God, guided by the Spirit of God.

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Ὅταν οὖν τὸ μὲν εἷναι ἓν τὸ θεῖον ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον κἂν μὴ θέλωσι τοῖς πᾶσι συμφωνῆται ἐπὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς τῶν ὅλων παραγινομένοις, ἡμεῖς δὲ κρατύνωμεν τὸν διακοσμήσαντα τὸ πᾶν τοῦτο τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν θεόν, τίς ἡ αἰτία τοῖς μὲν ἐπ᾿ ἀδείας ἐξεῖναι καὶ λέγειν καὶ γράφειν περὶ τοῦ θείου ἃ…

Athenagoras — Plea for the Christians 9

Athenagoras · fl. c. 177 AD · Plea for the Christians

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…

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Εἰ μὲν οὖν ταῖς τοιαύταις ἐννοίαις ἀπηρκούμεθα, ἀνθρωπικὸν ἄν τις εἶναι τὸν καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἐνόμισε λόγον. Ἐπεὶ δὲ αἱ φωναὶ τῶν προφητῶν πιστοῦσιν ἡμῶν τοὺς λογισμούς (νομίζω καὶ ὑμᾶς, φιλομαθεστάτους καὶ ἐπιστημονεστάτους ὄντας, οὐκ ἀνοήτους γεγονέναι οὔτε τῶν Μωσέως οὔτε τῶν Ἠσαΐου…

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