Isaac Newton on prophecy

[Biblema]

The folly of interpreters has been to foretell times and things by this prophecy, as if God designed to make them prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreters', be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things predicted many ages before will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by Providence.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)


http://www.historicist.com/Newton/title.htm

I haven't read everything on this site but looks very interesting and relevant to every student of Bible Prophecy.