Prophecy
The prophetic dimension of Scripture: the prophets as seers who perceived Christ hidden in mystery, the Twelve Prophets as prefiguring more than the letter, and the individual prophetic missions from Hosea through Malachi, culminating in the rejection of Israel and calling of the nations. Lacordaire divides the history of Jesus Christ into prophetic, evangelical, and apostolic times.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— The Prophets are called seers because they saw Christ whom others did not see; Abraham saw his day and rejoiced; the heavens were opened to Ezekiel.
"Whence the Prophets are also called seers, because they saw him whom the rest did not see. Abraham saw his day and rejoiced."
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— The twelve prophets, compressed into one volume, prefigure much more than what sounds in the letter.
"The twelve prophets, compressed into the narrow compass of a single volume, prefigure much more than what sounds in the letter."
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Jonah prefigures the passion of the Lord by his own shipwreck and calls the world to repentance.
"Jonah, that most beautiful dove, prefiguring the passion of the Lord by his own shipwreck, calls the world to repentance, and under the name of Nineveh announces salvation to the nations."
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Malachi announces the rejection of Israel and calling of the nations: God's name is great among the nations from the rising of the sun to its setting.
"Malachi, openly, and at the end of all the Prophets, concerning the rejection of Israel and the calling of the nations"
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Isaiah seems to weave not prophecy but a Gospel.
"The first seems to me to weave not prophecy but a Gospel."
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— Lacordaire divides the history of Jesus Christ into prophetic, evangelical, and apostolic times: in the first, Christ is awaited and prepared for.
"The history of Jesus Christ is thus divided into three periods distributed across four thousand years: the prophetic times, the evangelical times, and the apostolic times."
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— The power of the psalms and prophecies comes from their relationship to Jesus Christ; in them the veil falls and the person of Christ takes shape.
"in the psalms and the prophecies, the veil falls, the mystery clears, the person of Jesus Christ takes shape; one perceives Him being born of a virgin, one follows His steps and His sorrows, one witnesses His death, one sees Him triumph on the third day"
Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses
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Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch
— The prophets leap from one thing to another because the mind of the Prophet is carried away by prophetic light
"For the mind of the Prophet is carried away by the most exalted prophetic light, in which all things are close and connected"
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Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch
— Scripture promises things to persons fulfilled in their descendants
"Scripture is accustomed to promise certain things to certain persons that are not fulfilled in themselves but in their descendants"
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Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch
— Christ's redemption signified through paired names of slaughter and salvation
"the Prophets, making no distinction between enemies and citizens, introduce Christ coming to redeem mankind"