προφητεία

προφητείας, ἡ (προφητεύω, which see), Hebrew נְבוּאָה, prophecy, i. e. discourse emanating from divine inspiration and declaring the purposes of God, whether by reproving and admonishing the wicked, or comforting the afflicted, or revealing things hidden; especially by foretelling future events. Used in the N. T. — of the utterances of the O. T. prophets: Mt 13:14; 2 Pet 1:20, 2 Pet 1:21 (on this passage see γίνομαι, 5 e. α.); — of the prediction of events relating to Christ's kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions pertaining thereto: Rev 11:6; Rev 22:19; τό πνεῦμα τῆς προφητείας, the spirit of prophecy, the divine mind, to which the prophetic faculty is due, Rev 19:10; οἱ λόγοι τῆς προφητείας, Rev 1:3; Rev 22:7, Rev 22:10, Rev 22:18; — of the endowment and speech of the Christian teachers called προφῆται (see προφήτης, II. 1 f.): Rom 12:6; 1 Cor 12:10; 1 Cor 13:2; 1 Cor 14:6, 1 Cor 14:22; plural the gifts and utterances of these prophets, 1 Cor 13:8; 1 Thess 5:20; — specifically, of the prognostication of those achievements which one set apart to teach the gospel will accomplish for the kingdom of Christ, 1 Tim 4:14; plural (see προάγω, 2 a. and compare the commentaries). ((The Sept., Josephus); among native Greek writers used only by Lucian, Alex. 40, 60; (to which add inscriptions (see Liddell and Scott, under the word, I.)).)