The Significance of Samuel for Old Testament Prophecy

To bring this subject to a successful issue, answers must be given to the following questions: What is to be understood by the prophetic office and by prophecy? What is a prophet? The prophetic office implied the right and the capacity to receive and impart a divine communication. As to the prophet, he was a friend of God authorized and qualified by His grace to know and to communicate to men God's counsel and through this engagement to build and set in order God's house. The first person in...