oracles in English

noun
1
a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.
Her priests and oracles are all being kept in the tower.
2
a response or message given by an oracle, typically one that is ambiguous or obscure.

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1. The second form is Divination, or consulting oracles.

2. Oracles were used as a means of political influence.

3. The trademark of oracles was their ambiguity.

4. The ancient oracles were often vague and equivocal.

5. The oracles were expected to divine the future.

6. Relate these oracles as much as possible to the three main events of the Assyrian Judgment.

7. Ancient oracles were notoriously ambiguous and unreliable, and modern horoscopes are no better.

8. In sharp contrast with pagan oracles, Bible prophecies are noted for their accuracy and clarity.

9. The Siwa's cliff-hung Temple of Amun was renowned for its oracles for more than 1,000 years.

10. Chiefly (5 Occurrences) Romans 3:2 Much every way: Chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God

11. The Bible as holy literature, the oracles of the Logos, has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation.

12. Actually, Papias’ exposition of the Lord’s oracles, or sayings, was an attempt to stem the tide of Gnosticism.

13. Oracles were generally given in private so that the one receiving them could exploit their interpretation to his own advantage.

14. Adytum (plural adytums or Adyta) (Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given

15. If one were to believe the Greek historian Plutarch (in "The Obsolescence of Oracles" (Moralia, Book ), Pan is the only Greek god who is dead.

16. THE BOOK OF Amos Amos was a sheepbreeder of Tekoa in Judah, who delivered his oracles in the Northern Kingdom during the prosperous reign of Jeroboam II (786–746 B.C.)

17. Bakis (also Bacis; Greek: Βάκις) is a general name for the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C

18. In a free country, human speech must needs be free; and the State must listen to the maunderings of folly, and the screechings of its geese, and the Brayings of its asses, as well as to the golden oracles of its wise and great men

19. The Basest of newspaper scribblers, penny-a-liners out of the gutters, bar-room oracles, unfrocked monks and priests, the refuse of the literary guild, of the bar, and of the clergy, carpenters, turners, grocers, locksmiths, shoemakers, common laborers, many with no profession at all, strolling politicians and [22]public brawlers, who, like the

20. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty” (Official Declaration 1, “Excerpts from Three Addresses by President Wilford Woodruff Regarding the Manifesto”; emphasis added).