The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, April 1st, 2001
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ALTHOUGH BIBLICAL PROPHECY has more to do with "forth telling" than "foretelling," there is no question that prediction plays an important part in prophetic utterance. The fulfillment of prophetic prediction in its historical situation is often hard to ascertain, yet it is clear that, at times, predictions were not fulfilled. In such cases some scholars attempt to confirm the veracity of predictive prophecy by means of a hermeneutical device variously called "prophetic foreshortening,"' "prophetic compenetration,"2 "the prophet's tele...
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