them. Every one can say this; every one can call himself a prophet. But I see that Christian religion wherein prophecies are fulfilled; and that is what every one cannot do. 694. And what crowns all this is prediction, so that it should not be said that it is chance which has done it? Whosoever, having only a week to live, will not find out that it is expedient to believe that all this is not a stroke of chance... Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same thing. 695. Prophecies.--Great Pan is dead. 696. Susceperunt verbum cum omni aviditate, scrutantes Scripturas, si ita se haberent.[138] 697. Prodita lege. Impleta cerne. Implenda collige.[139] 698. We understand the prophecies only when we see the events happen. Thus the proofs of retreat, discretion, silence, etc., are proofs only to those who know and believe them. Joseph so internal in a law so external. Outward penances dispose to inward, as humiliations to humility. Thus the... 699. The synagogue has preceded the church; the Jews, the Christians. The pr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster