22:11) by the apparition of a voice from heaven; and ( Gen. 26:24) to Isaac in the night, that is, in his sleep, or by dream; and to Jacob ( Gen. 28:12) in a dream, that is to say, as are the words of the text, “Jacob dreamed that he saw a ladder,” etc. ; and ( Gen. 32:1) in a vision of angels; and to Moses ( Exod. 3:2) in the apparition of a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And after the time of Moses, where the manner how God spake immediately to man in the Old Testament is expressed, He spake always by a vision, or by a dream; as to Gideon, Samuel, Eliah, Elisha, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the rest of the prophets; and often in the New Testament, as to Joseph, to St. Peter, to St. Paul, and to St.