marks the climax of Israel’s historical experience. Moreover, each one of the Old Testament prophets spoke out of the midst of a situation in which they were wholly involved, bodily, mentally, and spiritually, in the crisis in question. The prophets took no balcony view of events, but belonged with their brethren down in the arena, where the heat of the battle was most intense. There they were able to feel the response of their own people to their words, as they all faced the particular situation