Origen

“ Since, therefore, the heathen employ modes of divination either by oracles or by omens, or by birds, or by ventriloquists, or by those who profess the art of sacrifice, or by Chaldean genealogists—all which practices were forbidden to the Jews—this people, if they had no means of attaining a knowledge of futurity, being led by the passion common to humanity of ascertaining the future would have despised their own prophets, as not having in them any particle of divinity ”

“ And we establish this necessity in the following manner. “For the nations,” as it is written in the law of the Jews itself, “shall hearken unto observers of times, and diviners;” [1] but to that people it is said: “But as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.” [2] And to this is subjoined the promise: “A prophet shall the Lord thy God raise up unto thee from among thy brethren.” ”