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Many are anecdotal, and have survived as proverbs. Several are ambiguously phrased, apparently in order to show the oracle in a good light regardless of the outcome. Such prophecies were admired for their dexterity of phrasing. The following list presents some of the most prominent and historically significant prophecies of Delphi.
Lut (Arabic: لوط, romanized: Lūṭ, ), also known as Lot in the Old Testament, is a prophet and messenger of God in the Qur'an. [1] [2] According to Islamic tradition, Lut was born to Haran and spent his younger years in Ur, later migrating to Canaan with his uncle Abraham. [3]
The desire to see Every executed led to the first truly global manhunt in history, though he and the majority of his crew would never be caught. Six members of his crew were captured, tried, and executed, though they were not found guilty of seizing Ganj-i-Sawai, but rather a different ship. [12]
The nature of the literary text is argued upon. There are a number of different theories stating that the literature is a historical romance in pseudo-prophetic form, political literature, religious motivation as well as a literary text created to change and improve the situation in Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty.
The Mirabilis liber (Mirabilis liber qui prophetias revelationesque, necnon res mirandas, preteritas, presentes et futuras, aperte demonstrat...) is an anonymous and formerly very popular compilation of predictions by various Christian saints and diviners first printed in France in 1522 (though purportedly published in Rome in 1524, probably because it was the date of an important and long ...
He is considered to be a messenger of God and a prophet of God. [25] In Islamic tradition, Lut lived in Ur and was a nephew of Ibrahim . He migrated with Ibrahim to Canaan and was commissioned as a prophet to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. [26] His story is used as a reference by Muslims to demonstrate God's disapproval of homosexuality.
A detail of the Gabriel Revelation Stone on display in the Israel Museum (fair use full view).. Gabriel's Revelation, also called Hazon Gabriel (the Vision of Gabriel) [1] or the Jeselsohn Stone, [2] is a stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink, containing a collection of short prophecies written in the first person.
Les Prophéties (The Prophecies) is a collection of prophecies by French physician Nostradamus, the first edition of which appeared in 1555 by the publishing house Macé Bonhomme. His most famous work is a collection of poems, quatrains , united in ten sets of verses ("Centuries") of 100 quatrains each.