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Excerpt from Preaching and Sermon Construction
Between these two descriptions of the prophetic spirit lies the whole range of its development, from the ecstasy of a sensitive soul in vague intuitions, to the God-illuminated reason of an inspired spirit. At first the prophet's personality had little to do with his message. The man is possessed by God. He is filled with Deity, as now the Hindus say of a fakir in a fit, He is full of God. Then as the ethical content of revelation devel oped, moral response became necessary in the prophet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
