Full Idea
How do prophets see the future, if there is not a future to be seen?
Gist of Idea
If the future does not exist, how can prophets see it?
Source
Augustine (Confessions [c.398], XI.17)
Book Reference
Augustine: 'Confessions', ed/tr. Pine-Coffin,R.S. [Penguin 1961], p.267
A Reaction
The answer, I suspect, is that prophets can't see the future. The prospect that the future already exists would seem to saboutage human freedom and responsibility, and point to Calvinist predestination, and even fatalism.