Excerpt from Ancient Cities and Empires: Their Prophetic Doom, Read in the Light of History and Modern Research<br><br>The witnesses are many, and Prophecy is one, yet but one, among them. The voice of a single witness however, is important, when it corroborates the testi mony of others. The prophets had indeed a mission distinct from the foretelling of future events. They were the religious teachers of their nation. But inci dentally, almost necessarily, their portrayal of threat ened judgments took the form of what we call pro phecy. Did they declare truthfully what was yet to be? If so, were they taught and guided by human sagacity, or by the inspiration of Him who seeth the end from the beginning?<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.