(3) This points to a third type of inspiration among the prophets of Israel. It showed its! desire for that which yet to be revealed—a wider, deeper knowledge of God and a clearer manifestation of His Kingdom. There was Hosea dwelling on the slowness of God's anger, Isaiah on the swiftness of His judgment, Ezekiel on the fact of personal responsibility, Ma-, machi on the need for religious revival. This type of prophecy that created the church from the ruins of a nation, is partly evangelical, partly ecclesiastical, but in all of it we feel the inspiration of God, because it was fitted to the real facts of the time and was able to lead the people into anew age. And when our Saviour preacher the Kingdom and promised the Spirit of God, He perfected this third type of prophecy too.
DEGREES OF INSPIRATION, Much more might be said as to the diverse portions and measures of prophecy, but it will be already clear that inspiration in the prophets is of variable value. I cannot understand a statement recently published, that "history knows nothing of degrees of inspiration in the prophets." Surely there is a world of difference in the degree of inspiration shown, let us say- by the so-called "disobedient prophet," who was commissioned to give a single message to King Jeroboam, and by such a man as Amos, whose inspiration led him to study the political situation of his day from the standpoint of faith in God's character, and thereby to rise to a philosophy of history that transcended patriotism _alto-
Or how can you compare the inspiration that enabled a prophet to foretell a year of drought with the inspiration that so purified the spiritual outlook of Jer-omlah that he foretold the gift of a new covenant, that should
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