p. 7 | Inspired of God by Adam Clarke

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 15, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 20.

Inspired of God.

By Adam Clarke

(Adam Clarke on 2 Peter 1:19.)

PERHAPS there is scarcely any point of view in which we can consider prophecy, which is so satisfactory and conclusive as that which is here stated; that is, far from inventing the subject of their own predictions, the ancient prophets did not even know the meaning of what themselves wrote. They were carried beyond themselves by the influence of the divine Spirit; and after ages were alone to discover the object of the prophecy; and the fulfilment was to be the absolute proof that the prediction was of God; and that it was of no private invention, no discovery made by human sagacity and wisdom, but by the especial revelation of the all-wise God. This is sufficiently evident in all the prophecies which have been already fulfilled; and will be equally so in those yet to be fulfilled, the events will point out the prophecy; and the prophecy will be seen to be fulfilled in that event.