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Comparative Nature of Revelation … M.A Shafizadeh and S. As'ad / 21
The Torah includes “Book A. Linguistic and Direct
of Genesis”, “Book of Revelation
Exodus”, “Book of Leviticus”, It is understood from some
“Book of Numbers”, and passages in the Bible that
“Book of Deuteronomy”. God's revelation to Moses, as
(Tawfiqi, 2015: 97 and 108) well as to some of the
The Old Testament has in prophets, was verbal. Phrases
some cases explicitly spoken such as “God said”, “God
of God's revelation and says”, “God's word came to
relationship with the prophets. me”, “God spoke to Moses”,
Among other things, it is the and “I will speak to you” are
revelation of the word of God repeated in the Bible. Other
about Israel and the word of words, “God spoke to you
God that spread the heavens through the fire, and you heard
and laid the foundation of the the words; but you did not see
earth and made the human soul a face”, (Book of
within him. (Book of Deuteronomy, 14: 13) So the
Zechariah, 12: 1-2) God addressed Moses and
Some phrases have spoken said: “Gather with me seventy
of the revelation plummet; It is of the elders of the Israelites,
as if the revelation of God's whom you know to be the
word descends on the land of elders of the people and their
“Hadrakh” and “Damascus” is rulers”, (Book of Numbers
its place. (Book of Zechariah, Numbers, 11: 17) and other
9: 1; Quoted by Karimi, 2008: such expressions appear that
394) the revelation of God to Moses
The following is the type of was in the form of speech.
revelation in the Old (Amini, 2014: 180)
Testament, which is explained
as follows : B. Revelation by Angels
Sometimes the revelation is
communicated by the
messenger angel. “The angel
