It has sometimes been assumed that the characteristic style of inspired literature is declamation, which is to be found notably in the prophetic books. B.B. Warfield‘s magisterial exposition of the doctrine of inspiration2 is sometimes criticized as more appropriate to the prophetic books than to other types of Biblical literature. Legitimate comparisons may however be made between the prophets and the Mosaic Law (as divine requirement), the epistles (as divine truth applied to concrete situations),