# Prophecy

- Id: `prophecy`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/prophecy/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `b99bf3f7e992a1bac4c5d894b8e8129eb09b88033341813b401b41f053b6f558`

## Summary

Prophecy conveys speech held to be divine in order to warn, judge, console, or guide a community.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,719 passages across 167 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:jesus.judith:6",
    "passage:jesus.ezra:6",
    "passage:jesus.daniel_vulgate_form:9"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "prophete",
    "prophète",
    "prophecy",
    "prophet",
    "prophetia",
    "نبي",
    "رسول"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 167,
    "passages": 1719,
    "thinkers": 33,
    "traditions": 15
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddhism",
        "name": "Buddhism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/buddhism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicureanism",
        "name": "Epicureanism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/epicureanism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "judaism",
        "name": "Judaism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/judaism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "islam",
        "name": "Islam",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "new-thought",
        "name": "New Thought and mental science",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/new-thought-and-mental-science/"
    },
    {
        "id": "fiction",
        "name": "Fictional Jedi tradition",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/fictional-jedi-tradition/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-authored-papers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.nicomachean_ethics",
        "title": "Nicomachean Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.digha_nikaya",
        "title": "Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/digha-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.academica",
        "title": "Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/academica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_atticus",
        "title": "Letters to Atticus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-atticus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_friends",
        "title": "Letters to Friends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-friends/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_divinatione",
        "title": "On Divination",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-divinatione/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_amicitia",
        "title": "On Friendship",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-amicitia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.dio_orations",
        "title": "Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations",
        "author": "Dio Chrysostom",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/dio-chrysostom/dio-orations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.lucian_sale",
        "title": "Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of Samosata",
        "author": "Lucian of Samosata",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/lucian/lucian-sale/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.plutarch_alexander",
        "title": "Life of Alexander, Chapter 14: The Encounter with Diogenes, by Plutarch",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-alexander/"
    },
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        "id": "einstein.born_letters",
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        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/born-letters/"
    },
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        "title": "The Meaning of Relativity",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/meaning-of-relativity/"
    },
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        "id": "einstein.world_as_i_see_it",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/world-as-i-see-it/"
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        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/epictetus-introduction/"
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        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/talbot-letters/"
    },
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.montagu_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/montagu-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.vesey_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/vesey-letters/"
    },
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.bible_notes",
        "title": "Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the Bible",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/bible-notes/"
    },
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        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
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        "id": "epicurus.fragments",
        "title": "Surviving Fragments of Epicurus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.vatican_sayings",
        "title": "Vatican Sayings",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/vatican-sayings/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/traumdeutung/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/hillel/rabbinic-testimonia/"
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        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
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        "id": "jung.collected_papers_analytical_psychology",
        "title": "Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/collected-papers-analytical-psychology/"
    },
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        "id": "jung.psychologische_typen",
        "title": "Psychological Types",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychologische-typen/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious",
        "title": "Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychology-of-the-unconscious/"
    },
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        "id": "jung.theory_of_psychoanalysis",
        "title": "The Theory of Psychoanalysis",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/theory-of-psychoanalysis/"
    },
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        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
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        "id": "moses.deuteronomy",
        "title": "Deuteronomy",
        "author": "Moses",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/deuteronomy/"
    },
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        "id": "moses.exodus",
        "title": "Exodus",
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        "title": "The Antichrist",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/antichrist/"
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        "title": "The Gay Science",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/gay-science/"
    },
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        "title": "Ecce Homo",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/ecce-homo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.beyond_good_evil",
        "title": "Beyond Good and Evil",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/beyond-good-evil/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.human_all_too_human_1",
        "title": "Human, All Too Human I",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/human-all-too-human-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.human_all_too_human_2",
        "title": "Human, All Too Human II",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/human-all-too-human-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.daybreak",
        "title": "Daybreak",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/daybreak/"
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    {
        "id": "plato.alcibiades_1",
        "title": "First Alcibiades",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/alcibiades-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.alcibiades_2",
        "title": "Second Alcibiades, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/alcibiades-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.apology",
        "title": "Apology of Socrates",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.charmides",
        "title": "Charmides",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/charmides/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.cratylus",
        "title": "Cratylus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/cratylus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epistles",
        "title": "Letters Attributed to Plato",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epistles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.ion",
        "title": "Ion",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/ion/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.meno",
        "title": "Meno",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/meno/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.minos",
        "title": "Minos, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/minos/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedo",
        "title": "Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedrus",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedrus/"
    },
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        "id": "plato.republic",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
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        "id": "plato.statesman",
        "title": "Statesman",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/statesman/"
    },
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        "id": "plato.symposium",
        "title": "Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/symposium/"
    },
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        "id": "plato.theaetetus",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/theaetetus/"
    },
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        "id": "plato.timaeus",
        "title": "Timaeus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/timaeus/"
    },
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        "id": "plutarch.alexander",
        "title": "Alexander",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/alexander/"
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    {
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        "title": "Cato the Younger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.e_at_delphi",
        "title": "On the E at Delphi",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/e-at-delphi/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.table_talk",
        "title": "Table Talk",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/table-talk/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.naturales_quaestiones",
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        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/naturales-quaestiones/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_charmides",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Charmides",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-charmides/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_meno",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Meno",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-meno/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedo",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedrus",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedrus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_protagoras",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Protagoras",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_symposium",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_theaetetus",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Theaetetus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-theaetetus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_apology",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Apology",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-apology/"
    },
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        "id": "spinoza.ethics_en",
        "title": "Ethics, English Manifestation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-en/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.ethics_fr",
        "title": "Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-fr/"
    },
    {
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        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/political-treatise-en/"
    },
    {
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