Re: The Early Christians: In Their Own Words

The initial spiritual flood of Christian prophecy slowly ebbed away until 
by the end of the second century its force was spent. Melito of Sardis was

one of the last to call himself a prophet. Jewish prophecy had also 
declined only a few years earlier, after the destruction of Jerusalem. 
Until that time there had been an immense prophetic activity. It was 
preserved in the names of certain Jewish prophets and in the abundance of 
contem****aneous Jewish revelations and oracles from that time. These, 
however, lacked the power and authority of the prophets of old because
they 
served merely a literary purpose. The Christian prophets alone now claimed

the authority of the Holy Spirit. It spoke through them as God’s voice.