Observations on a passage in the Medea of Seneca; and on the 
argument against the Evidence of Prophecy, drawn from it by 
Deistical writers. By the Rev. George Hamilton, Rector of Kil- 
lermogh, Diocese of Ossory. 
Read J anuary 22, 1891. 
“TAM persuaded that a prophecy, literally fulfilled, is a real mira- 
cle ; and that one such produced, to which no exception could justly 
be made, would go a great way in convincing all reasonable men. 
Let him (Mr. Woolaston) produce one prophecy as clear as is con- 
tained in Seneca the Tragedian, of the discovery of America and 
Greenland”— 
« Venient annis 
Secula seris, quibus Oceanus 
Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens 
Pateat tellus, Tiphysque novos 
Detegat orbes, nec sit terris 
Ultima Thule.” — 
Coxuins’s Scheme of Literal Prophecy considered. 
This passage has attracted the notice of two. distinguished: Pre- 
lates of our Church, whose remarks have neither anticipated, nor 
(as I conceive) rendered unnecessary the object of the following 
Essay. 
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