Thursday, December 8, 2016

Portents (De portentis) Chapter IV ~ St. Isidore of Seville


4. Some portents seem to have been created as indications of future events, for God sometimes wants to indicate what is to come through some defects in newborns, and also through dreams and oracles, by which he may foreshadow and indicate future calamity for certain peoples or individuals, as is indeed proved by abundant experience.

The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville 
Book xi The human being and portents

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