| ### QUESTION 173 ### OF THE MANNER IN WHICH PROPHETIC KNOWLEDGE IS CONVEYED ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the manner in which prophetic knowledge is conveyed, and under this head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the prophets see God's very essence? #### (2) Whether the prophetic revelation is effected by the infusion of certain species, or by the infusion of Divine light alone? #### (3) Whether prophetic revelation is always accompanied by abstraction from the sense? #### (4) Whether prophecy is always accompanied by knowledge of the things prophesied? ####  |