The fourth thing that the Bible makes perfectly clear is, that _not one single prophetic utterance was of the prophet's own will (i.e., it was not in any sense merely what he wished to say), but in every instance the Prophet spoke from God, and the Prophet was carried along in the prophetic utterance by the Holy Spirit, regardless of his own will or thought_. We find this stated practically in so many words in 2 Pet. 1:21 where we read: +"For no prophecy+ (literally, _not a prophecy_) +ever came+ (literally, was brought) +by the will of man; but men spake from God being moved+ (literally, carried along, or borne) +by the Holy Spirit."+ There can be no honest mistaking of the meaning of this language. The Prophet never thought that there was something that needed to be said and therefore said it, but God took possession of the prophet, _carried him along_ in his utterance, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and he spake, not from his own consciousness, and not from his own reasoning, nor from his own intuition, but "_from God_." As God's messenger he spoke what God told him to say. V. THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS THE REAL SPEAKER WHO SPOKE IN THE PROPHETIC UTTERANCES The fifth thing that the Bible teaches regarding the Inspiration of the Prophets and the Apostles and their utterances, is that _the Holy Spirit was the real speaker in the prophetic utterances, that what was said or written was the Holy Spirit's Word that was upon the Apostle's tongue, and not the word of the Prophet or Apostle_. This is said in the Bible in so many words, over and over again. For example, in Heb. 3:7 we read: +"Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear His voice, harden not your hearts, etc."+ The author of the epistle to the Hebrews is quoting Ps. 95:7, 8 and says that what the Psalmist is recorded as saying "_the Holy Spirit saith_." Again in Heb. 10:15, 16, we read: +"And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after He had said, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, and upon their mind also will I write them."+ Now the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews is quoting Jer. 31:33, and he does not hesitate to say that the testimony that Jeremiah there bore is _the testimony of the Holy Ghost_, that the Holy Ghost was the real speaker. Again we read in Acts 28:25, 26 that Paul said, +"Well spake the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet, unto your fathers, (26) saying, Go thou unto this people and say, By hearing ye shall hear and shall in no wise understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive, etc."+ Here Paul is quoting Isaiah's words as recorded in the 6th chapter of Isaiah, the 9th and 10th verses, and he distinctly says that the real speaker was not Isaiah, but "the Holy Spirit" who spoke "through Isaiah the prophet."