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Prophetic perfect tense. The prophetic perfect tense is a literary technique commonly used in religious texts, [1] which describes future events that are so certain to happen that they are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened. [2]
The idea is found in many ancient cultures. Among the Celts, for instance, the bard held the king accountable to his sacred vows to land and people.In Greece, the oracles at Delphi and other sacred sites gave pronouncements in a highly stylized form of prophetic speech.
I understand the speech of the dumb and hear the voiceless. The smell has come to my sense of a hard-shelled tortoise being cooked with a lamb's flesh in a bronze pot: bronze is the cauldron underneath, and bronze is the lid.] Delphi was declared the winner.
See media help. The plaque outside the site of the speech, Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. " I've Been to the Mountaintop " is the popular name of the final speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. [1][2][3] King spoke on April 3, 1968, [4] at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee.
During his speech, King speaks with urgency and crisis, giving him a prophetic voice. The prophetic voice must "restore a sense of duty and virtue amidst the decay of venality." [45] An evident example is when King declares that "now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
Prophecy. In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a prophet) by a supernatural entity. Prophecies are a feature of many cultures and belief systems and usually contain divine will or law, or preternatural knowledge, for example of future events.
The Olivet Discourse or Olivet prophecy is a biblical passage found in the Synoptic Gospels in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21.It is also known as the Little Apocalypse because it includes the use of apocalyptic language, and it includes Jesus's warning to his followers that they will suffer tribulation and persecution before the ultimate triumph of the Kingdom of God. [1]
Congregations served. Berlin-Dahlem. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin. Offices held. Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, University of Heidelberg. Title. Reverend Doctor. Claus Westermann (7 October 1909 – 11 June 2000) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar. [1] He taught at the University of Heidelberg from 1958 to 1978.