A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09

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Voltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09

PROPERTY

PROPHECIES

PROPHETS

PROVIDENCE

PURGATORY

QUACK (OR CHARLATAN)

RAVAILLAC

REASONABLE, OR RIGHT

RELICS

RELIGION

RHYME

RESURRECTION

RIGHTS

RIVERS

ROADS

ROD

ROME (COURT OF)

SAMOTHRACE

SAMSON

SATURN'S RING

SCANDAL

SCHISM

SCROFULA

SECT

SELF-LOVE

SENSATION

SENTENCES (REMARKABLE)

SENTENCES OF DEATH

SERPENTS

SHEKEL

SIBYL

SINGING

SLAVES

SLEEPERS (THE SEVEN)

SLOW BELLIES (VENTRES PARESSEUX)

SOCIETY (ROYAL) OF LONDON, AND ACADEMIES

SOCRATES

SOLOMON

SOMNAMBULISTS AND DREAMERS

SOPHIST

SOUL

SPACE

STAGE (POLICE OF THE)

STATES – GOVERNMENTS

STATES-GENERAL

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This word, in its ordinary acceptation, signifies prediction of the future. It is in this sense that Jesus declared to His disciples: "All things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me. Then opened He their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures."

We shall feel the indispensable necessity of having our minds opened to comprehend the prophecies, if we reflect that the Jews, who were the depositories of them, could never recognize Jesus for the Messiah, and that for eighteen centuries our theologians have disputed with them to fix the sense of some which they endeavor to apply to Jesus. Such is that of Jacob – "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come." That of Moses – "The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet like unto me from the nations and from thy brethren; unto Him shall ye hearken." That of Isaiah – "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." That of Daniel – "Seventy weeks have been determined in favor of thy people," etc. But our object here is not to enter into theological detail.

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"You did not then contribute in anything, by your discourses, either badly rendered or badly interpreted, to those frightful masses of bones which I passed on my way to consult you?"

"I looked with horror on those who were guilty of all these murders."

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