1 Samuel 9:9
Douay-Rheims
Now in time past, in Israel when a man went to consult God he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.
Augustine of Hippo
I wonder how that opinion could have arisen whereby sight is thought to belong to bodies only. But, from whatever habit of speech that opinion may have come, the holy Scriptures are not accustomed to speak thus; they attribute vision not only to the body but also to the spirit, and more to the spirit than to the body. Otherwise they would not have been right in giving the name seers to the prophets who saw the future not by bodily but by spiritual sight.
Source details
A.D. 430 · on 1Sam 9:9 (LETTER 147.50)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.