But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.

This is supported by Jude's unusual Greek statement that " Enoch the Seventh from Adam prophesied to the false teachers, not " concerning " them.

It prophesied an American utopia regulated by an assortment of cutting-edge technologies: remote-controlled multi lane highways, power plants, farms for artificially produced crops, rooftop platforms for individual flying machines and various gadgets, all intended to create an ideal built environment and ultimately to reform society.

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

Christianity was founded in the 1st century in the Levant region of the Middle East by Jesus Christ of Nazareth ( Matthew 16: 18 ) Jesus of Nazareth as prophesied in the Old Testament ( Micah 5: 2-5 ) to be the Christ or chosen one of God.

During his first trip he had encountered a holy man, Shaykh Abul Hasan al Shadili, who prophesied that he would only reach Mecca by travelling through Syria.

When he feels as if " dressed in borrowed clothes ", after his new title as Thane of Cawdor, prophesied by the witches, has been confirmed by Ross ( I, 3, ll.

Most modern Christian churches continue to uphold the belief that there will be a final Resurrection of the Dead and World to Come, perhaps as prophesied by the Apostle Paul when he said: "... he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world ..." ( Acts 17: 31 KJV ) and "... there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

In January 1946, Theosophist Alice A. Bailey prophesied that Christ ( who is regarded by Theosophists as being identical with the being known by Theosophists as the Maitreya ) would return " sometime after AD 2025 ".

David's popularity in Wales is shown by the Armes Prydein Fawr c. 930, a popular prophetic poem in which the poet prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost, the Cymry ( the Welsh people ) would unite behind the standard of David to defeat the English ; A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant (" And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi ").

They are later revived by a mystic named Eli with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel ; Callisto also makes Xena to conceive a daughter after the resurrection, and this child is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods ; this girl was named Eve.

Beatus followed the views of Saint Augustine whose work, The City of God, influenced the Commentaries which followed the premise that the History of the World was structured in six ages: the first five ones extended between the creation of Adam, and the Passion of Jesus, while the sixth, subsequent to Christ and contemporary to us, had to end with the unleashing of the happenings prophesied by the book of Revelation.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days ; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall (, interpreting the " wall " as the ocean ).

18, in which " a prophet like Moses " is promised: " As Moses was a prophet for forty years, so was Jeremiah ; as Moses prophesied concerning Judah and Benjamin, so did Jeremiah ; as Moses ' own tribe Levites under Korah rose up against him, so did Jeremiah's tribe revolt against him ; Moses was cast into the water, Jeremiah into a pit ; as Moses was saved by a slave ( the slave of Pharaoh's daughter ); so, Jeremiah was rescued by a slave ( Ebed-melech ); Moses reprimanded the people in discourses ; so did Jeremiah.

An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Troilus reached the age of twenty alive, but he was killed by Achilles.

Its plot is uncertain, whether the blinding of Orion by Oenopion and the satyrs on Chios, probably with Cedalion offstage and prophesied, or the recovery of Orion's sight on Lemnos.

Helenus prophesied Aeneas ' founding of Rome when he and his followers stopped at Buthrotum, detailed by Virgil in Aeneid Book III.

Oreste, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, brother to Electra and Iphigenia, and by now absolved of the crime of matricide prophesied by the Delphic oracle, has come to the court of Pyrrhus to plead on behalf of the Greeks for the return of Astyanax.

Since the majority of the Biblical prophets were writing at a time when was mostly Jewish, and the Temple in Jerusalem was still functioning, they wrote as if those institutions would still be in operation during the prophesied events.

Brian Rua O ' Cearbhain had prophesied that ' carts on iron wheels ' would carry bodies into Achill on their first and last journey.

81. 4 " Moreover also among us a man named John, one of the apostles of Christ, prophesied in a revelation made to him that those who have believed on our Christ will spend a thousand years in Jerusalem ; and that hereafter the general and, in short, the eternal resurrection and judgment of all will likewise take place ").

The abuses which Malachi mention in his writings correspond so exactly with those which Nehemiah found on his 2nd visit to Jerusalem in 432 BC ( Nehemiah 13: 7 ) that it seems reasonably certain that he prophesied shortly before that date, i. e. between 445 and 432 BC.

Lawrence of Rome, his best-known deacon, suffered martyrdom on 10 August, 3 days after his bishop, as Sixtus had prophesied.

Calchas had prophesied that the first Achean to walk on land after stepping off a ship would be the first to die.

In the 20th century, the renowned yogi Sonam Zangpo prophesied that a large statue of either Padmasambhava, Buddha or of a phurba would be built in the region " to bestow blessings, peace and happiness on the whole world ".

Ahab humbled himself at Elijah's words, and was spared accordingly, with the prophesied destruction being visited instead on his son Joram.

The weroance Chief Powhatan told Captain Smith about his Virginia Peninsula-based Powhatan Confederacy, and went on to say that he had wiped out the Roanoke colonists just prior to the arrival of the Jamestown settlers because they were living with the Chesepian, a tribe living in the eastern portion of the present-day South Hampton Roads sub-region who, besides having refused to join Chief Powhatan's Powhatan Confederacy, were also prophesied to rise up and destroy his empire.

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.

Epimenides was also said to have prophesied at Sparta on military matters.

The Greek seer named Calchas prophesied that Philoctetes ( whom the Greeks had abandoned on the island of Lemnos due to the vile odour from snakebite ) and the bow of Heracles are needed to take Troy.

An oracle had prophesied that the first Greek to walk on the land after stepping off a ship in the Trojan War would be the first to die, and so, after killing four men, he was himself slain by Hector.

Druids came to initiate the child into their religion, and prophesied that he would kill more than half of the men of Connacht, and that he would always have a Connachtman's head on his belt.

Another legend is that Merlin had prophesied the death on Llechllafar of an English King, conqueror of Ireland, who had been injured by a man with a red hand.

Although Shazam is killed, as prophesied, by a giant granite block falling on him, Billy / Marvel can summon the ghost of Shazam for guidance by lighting a special brazier in Shazam's lair ( the Rock of Eternity ).

A matakite ( visionary ) of Nukutaurua on Mahia Peninsula, named Toiroa Ikariki ( Ikarihi ), prophesied the birth of Te Kooti ( as well as the coming of the white men, the Pākehā ):

Nathan Ghazzati had prophesied that Sabbatai would place the sultan's crown on his own head.

Beside differences in tone, the most notable differences in the plot is that, in Basile's version, the sleep did not stem from a curse, but was prophesied ; that the king did not wake Talia from the sleep with a kiss, but raped her, and when she gave birth to two children, one sucked on her finger, drawing out the piece of flax that had put her to sleep, which woke her ; and that the woman who resented her and tried to eat her and her children was not the king's mother but his jealous wife.

The child, Elora Danan, is born in the Nockmaar dungeons and identified as the prophesied child by a birthmark on her arm.

Hone Toia near the end of his sentence in Mount Eden prison, prophesied the date of the Huihuinga prisoners release, as the predicted day wore on his powers appeared to have left him, but later that night at 9pm, it was announced and the prisoners released.

Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormons ) believe themselves to be descended from Manasseh and Ephraim ( in a " grafted in " sense of ancestry ), believing that the lost tribes are being restored in the latter days ( meaning now ) as prophesied by Isaiah ; some believe that this would be the fulfillment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall with the interpretation that the wall is the ocean.

Scholars have interpreted this to mean that Banquo has been dreaming of murdering the king as Macbeth's accomplice in order to take the throne for his own family, as the Three Witches prophesied to him.

Shardik's point of view is narrated to the reader in the first chapter only, as a confused sequence of action in which he flees a forest fire ; this act is interpreted by the Ortelgans as Shardik seeking them out as prophesied, yet could easily result from animalistic instinct in an animal remarkable only for its size.

He interpreted the contemporary West as a sensate civilization dedicated to technological progress and prophesied its fall into decadence and the emergence of a new ideational or idealistic era.

Sorokin has interpreted the contemporary Western civilisation as a sensate civilisation dedicated to technological progress and prophesied its fall into decadence and the emergence of a new ideational or idealistic era.