Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

Bruderhof Communities wrote:

> Sometimes the Holy Spirit performed clearly recognizable acts which 
> foreshadowed the future. At other times he spoke in unmistakable words
> about future events as if indeed they were happening now or had
> already happened. The reader must understand this manner of speaking
> in order to be able to follow rightly the words of the prophets.
> 
> Justin, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 114.1.
> 

If then we were to be satisfied with reasonings, our justification could 
seem to lie in human words, but the statements of the prophets confirm our

arguments. You, with your intellectual curiosity and great learning, will 
have heard of the sayings of men like Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the 
other prophets. Lifted in ecstasy above their own ways of thinking by the 
impulse of the Holy Spirit, they prophesied the things they were prompted 
to say. The Spirit used them in this way just as a flute player blows the 
flute. Let us hear, then, what they say.

Athenagoras, A Plea Regarding Christians 9.