Excerpt from Responses From the Sacred Oracles: Or, the Past in the Present We have, therefore, inquired at the Oracles of God, to ascertain in what light certain characters were regard ed, and what were the results of their manner of life and religious practices and as the Word of the Lord was to them, or the expression of God's will in relation to their actions, such are the responses of the Sacred Oracles to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.