And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, [and] will speak unto him in a dream.
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Louis Segond 1910
Et il dit: Ecoutez bien mes paroles! Lorsqu'il y aura parmi vous un prophète, c'est dans une vision que moi, l'Eternel, je me révélerai à lui, c'est dans un songe que je lui parlerai.
KJV
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, [and] will speak unto him in a dream.
Philo Judaeus
Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III
Μωυσεῖ δέ, ὅστις „πιστὸς ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ, στόμα κατὰ στόμα λαλήσει, ἐν εἴδει καὶ οὐ δι’ αἰνιγμάτων“ (Num. 12,6-8). ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν δύο φύσεις εὕρομεν γενομένας καὶ πλαττομένας καὶ ἄκρως τετορευμένας ὑπὸ θεοῦ, τὴν μὲν ἐξ ἑαυτῆς βλαβερὰν καὶ ἐπίληπτον καὶ κατάρατον, τὴν δὲ ὠφέλιμον κα…
Philo Judaeus
Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit
ένηται ὑμῶν προφήτης κυρίου, ἐν ὁράματι αὐτῷ γνωσθήσομαι, Μωυσῇ δὲ ἐν εἴδει, καὶ οὐ δι’ αἰνιγμάτων“ (Num. 12,6.8), καὶ πάλιν „οὐκ ἀνέστη ἔτι προφήτης ὡς Μωυσῆς, ὃν ἔγνω κύριος αὐτὸν πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον“ (Deut. 34, 10). παγκάλως οὖν τὸν ἐνθουσιῶντα μηνύει φάσκων „περὶ ἡλίου δυσ…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
o me." Or it may be said that his sleep was not natural, but was the sleep of prophecy, according to Num. 12:6 : "If there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream." In such cases the use of free-will remains. And yet…
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