88(cn【全.套◆S_片】

especially all such as are extravagant, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, so, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, indeed, then, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, rather, such as in the case of a sea-fight, that many such things should happen. As,classed as mere coincidences, or of things taking place far away. As regards th88(cnese it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, though not itself di88(cnvine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] , for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, the dream is, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the fu88(cnture]. They have a divine aspect, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, in the parallel instance, to him who has seen it, however, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, on mentioning some88(cnthing,