prophetic
Adjective
Meaning
Alt. of Prophetical
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prophetic writings
prophetic powers
words that proved prophetic
According to one Hadith, or record of prophetic tradition, a man asked the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him): “What do you say of a man who loves a certain group of people but cannot be of them?”
According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants will come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia (see ).
An exchange of letters between the pope and the friar ended in an impasse which Savonarola tried to break by sending His Holiness "a little book" recounting his prophetic career and describing some of his more dramatic visions.