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A vaticinium ex eventu ( Latin for " prophecy from the event here" ) is a theological and historiographical technical term. It refers to the insertion of a prophecy in a text, after the author had knowledge of the event. The prophecy is thereby introduced in the chronological order of the text before the occurrence of the event.

Furthermore, the extent to which contain prophecy in Tanakh and Prophecy in early Christianity vaticinia ex eventu, there is no consensus. Evangelicals and traditionalist theologians hold prophecies of the Bible as a rule for actual predictions.

Under historical-critical exegetes the majority assumes that the prophecies of Jesus concerning the destruction of Jerusalem in Luke 21:24 or about the destruction of the Temple in Mark had incurred approximately 13.2 until after the event. However, even here also represents a minority view that the Zerstörungsweissagungen Jesus the events of 70 AD, not so exactly correspond, as would be expected if the author had put Jesus these words after the events of the mouth ( see Gospel according to Luke, dating). The predictions of the book of Daniel are ex eventu in the scientific consensus as vaticinia. For the prophecies of Jesus, in which he predicts his death and resurrection (eg, Mark 8:31 ), keep it on the other hand a number of exegetes plausible that they arise in their core before his death.

In Hinduism, the Prophet Madhva a vaticinium creates in the 13th century ex eventu by it suggests a Vedic prophecy on his person and thus declared the divine incarnation.

The Book of Mormon contains the view of non- Mormons various vaticinia ex eventu, about about Christopher Columbus or the Mormon founder Joseph Smith.

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