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In this authoritative study of the prophets, Edward Young first considers what the Old Testament says about the origin of prophecy and the prophetic institution, and then deals with questions of the position of the prophet in the Divine economy, the relation between false and true prophets, and the relation of the prophets to the world in which they lived.

the word by giving it the emphatic position in the sentence; “thou—not so has the Lord thy God given to thee.” Thus, there is seen to be a distinction between the people of God and the world. The world has its sources of information, but the people of God are not to use them. When the Church, discarding the Word of God turns to the wisdom of men, she does a heinous thing. The world, by its wisdom knew not God. The Canaanites, by their wisdom, became an abomination. If, however, the people of Israel
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