They prophesied — raved in their frenzy; like Saul in the hour of madness (1 Samuel 18:10), or of overpowering religious excitement (1 Samuel 19:20). As a rule, not perhaps without some rare exceptions, the true prophetic inspiration, even if felt as overmastering the will (see Jeremiah 20:7), gave no place to frenzy. “The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.”

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