Excerpt from Old Testament Prophecy: Its Witness as a Record of Divine Foreknowledge; The Warburton Lectures for 1876 1880; With Notes on the Genuineness of the Book of Daniel and the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks Professor Kuenen; and he has, we are willing to admit, thrown much light upon some of the more forgotten features of prophecy; but his writings are the more valuable because he leaves us no vestige of 'supernaturalism' to deal with. According to him, Old Testament prophecy is a purely natural and psychological phenomenon, unique and historical indeed, but simply natural as the accidental form in which one of the 'principal religions of the world developed and expressed itself. It has no claim to be regarded as a direct and supernatural message from God. All its manifestations can be explained on psychological principles, and must historically be so explained; so that we have, according to Professor Kuenen, no longer any ground to look upon prophecy, and if not prophecy the Old Testament itself, as in any special sense the word of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.