I must get back my lost ground. I will explain. There are two kinds of prophecy. One is the gift to foretell things that are but a little way off, the other is the gift to foretell things that are whole ages and centuries away. He would not claim more, I think.
All prophets have their limit.
The limit of some of the great prophets has been a hundred years. These are few, I ween. They are nothing. That settled Brer Merlin. It never occurred to anybody to doubt the statement.