The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream - God answers the objection which might be started, 'What, then, must we do, when lies are spoken as truths, and prophets oppose prophets?' Do the same as when wheat is mixed with chaff: do not reject the wheat because of the chaff mixed with it, but discriminate between the false and the true revelations. The test is adherence to or forgetfulness of me and my law (Jeremiah 23:27).
That hath a dream ... What is the chaff to the wheat? - let him that pretends to have a divine communication by dream tell it "faithfully," that it may be compared with "my word" (2 Corinthians 4:2). The result will be the former (both the prophets and their fictions) will soon be seen to be chaff; the latter (the true prophets, and the word of God in their mouth) wheat (Psalms 1:4; Hosea 13:3).