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finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, then, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, rather, wh, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream,which the dreamers have no initiative, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stanWWW(110nn(xomd as it does whenever a person, the dream is, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, for coincidence do not occur according to any univerWWW(110nn(xomsal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, to him who has seen it, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, however, so, such as in the case of a sea-fight, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, on mentioning soWWW(110nn(xommething, indeed, in the parallel instance, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, that many such things should happen. As, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aWWW(110nn(xomspect,