But besides, the prophet is the message-bearer; the prophet is master and servant at the same time; the prophet is a teacher and at the same time a pupil. There is a great deal that he must learn from his experience through life, not in order to make himself capable to receive the message, but in order to make himself efficient enough to give the message. For God speaks to the prophet in his divine tongue, and the prophet interprets it in his turn in the language of men, making it intelligible to them and trying to put the finest ideas in the gross terms of worldly language.