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As we turn now to the problem of the Kingdom and the political order as put by Emil Brunner in his great work , The Divine Imperative , we note that the same argument we have examined in Niebuhr appears also in Brunner . At once , from the servant 's muttered syllables divining the key 's purpose , he smiled and said : " So , Don Benito - padlock and key - significant symbols , truly . Do not , therefore , regard me as culpable in this matter ; all which has happened or will happen has been brought about by your own divines and by the governor of the province . Many major software vendors , including Microsoft , IBM and HP , are embarking on similar initiatives to deliver intuitive software that divines dilemmas coming down the pike . These communications continued for about a week , until the foolish divines attempted to take advantage of them in order to compass the death of His Holiness the Martyr ; but the Lord of the Universe did not favour the desire wherewith their doctrine had inspired them , so that it did not succeed . Figures of transliteral authority , projected into a text so as to ensure " proper " understanding , are exposed and burlesqued by the " divining ape " who whispers his divinatory insight into " his master 's ear ... When asked about yoga , he waxes philosophic , quoting Eastern scriptures and referring to something he calls " God 's soundtrack , " where divining energies resonate through all things . ' It is no fanatical reading of the history of earthly politics and kingdoms , if we recognise that one of the most prominent reasons for the divine activities in moulding the kingdoms , setting up and casting down , is the advancement of the kingdom of heaven and the building of the City of God . Augustine , as we've seen , states explicitly how a text can ensure its " proper " reception by following the connection between " certain rules " of reading and " those used " in the reader 's " understanding " Cervantes raises the interpretive ante by framing the entire scene with the actions of Master Pedro 's " divining ape " whose divinatory powers reside in being able to tell you what you already know , or what you already believe , or have , through repetition , been conditioned to accept as understood . He has told me since that he was happy , which I should never have divined . With collaged covers , intricate labeling , and song selections whose secret meanings had to be divined by friends or paramours , mix tapes were something between folk art and a primitive network , personal and public at the same time . " Thinking he divined the cause of such unusual emotion , to confirm his surmise , Captain Delano , after a pause , said , " And may I ask , Don Benito , whether - since awhile ago you spoke of some cabin passengers - the friend , whose loss so afflicts you , at the outset of the voyage accompanied his blacks ? " I mention this remark here because one of the sure signs of Kant ’ s victory over the Bible was the scandal that so many Victorian intellectuals and Anglican divines took when they read the story of Saul ’ s slaughter of the Amalekites under God ’ s direct orders . Edmund soon divined Billy 's renunciation , though not the nature of it ; and several questions brought it forth - - the old pioneer dream of land spaciousness ; of cattle on a hundred hills ; one hundred and sixty acres of land the smallest thinkable division . Of these , at once the strangest and the most characteristic is the belief in the divine foundation and special divine protection of the Church ; and I there fore devote half this work to the history of the Church and its rulers . God 's purpose in them , and so the truth concerning them , as it rests in the mind of God , are thus revealed by direct illumination from the divine mind , to which the soul is opened inwardly through this spiritual sense we call intuition . The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle wrote that the guests included " distinguished educators , the leading divines of the city , the prominent physicians and lawyers , representatives of Congress and Assembly and the elite of the social life . The forked branches of this shrub or small tree were used as divining rods to detect underground sources of water . Again , though their frames are terrible to the eye and formidable in a brief onset , they have no capacity of enduring wounds ; without , any shame at the disgrace , without any regard to their leaders , they quit the field and flee ; they quail under disaster , just as in success they forget alike divine and human laws . Besides , it has been divined by other continental commentators , that when Jonah was thrown overboard from the Joppa ship , he straightway effected his escape to another vessel near by , some vessel with a whale for a figure-head ; and , I would add , possibly called " The Whale , " as some craft are nowadays christened the " Shark , " the " Gull , " the " Eagle .