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it is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication — after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and i have only his word for it that it was made to him.
- thomas paine, the age of reason, part first, section 1
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