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42 casionally reveals to them knowledge of His past action or future intention. But they can learn nothing without Divine communication. True, they are close to God, but they are not God. They only understand what they are made to under- stand, they only know what they are told, they only see what they are shown, and they only speak what they are made to speak; they are nothing in themselves. They only speak when the Supreme Power urges them to speak through reve- lation, and they only see when it makes them see, and they only hear when it speaks to them. Until God reveals to them something of the unseen, they have no inkling of it. The lives of all the Prophets bear testimony to this fact. Take the example of the Messiah as , how he acknowledges his own ignorance and says: But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. (Mark 13:32). He again says: I do nothing of myself (I cannot do anything); but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. It is not for me to raise anybody to the height of righteousness. 44 Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. (Mark) 45 In short, no Prophet has ever claimed omnipotence or om- niscience. Look at the humble man who is known as the Messiah, and whom ignorant creature-worshippers have taken for God, and see how on every occasion he proved, 44 John 8:28 [Publishers] 45 Mark 10:18 [Publishers]