The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 13:1
A prophet ( nabhi , נבָיִא ); one who speaks from God, an interpreter to men of what God reveals or suggests to him (of. for the meaning of the word, Exodus 7:1 with Exodus 4:16 ; also Jeremiah 15:19 ). Dreamer of dreams. Not by visions or immediate suggestion only, but also by means of dreams, did God communicate with men (cf. Numbers 12:6 ). The case supposed here, then, is that of one pretending to have had revelations from God through those media by which God was... read more
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 13:5
Verse 5 5.And that prophet. Since the ministers of Satan deceive men by their plausible exterior, when they vaunt themselves to be the prophets of God, Moses had already admonished them, that all. teachers were not to be listened to indifferently, but that the true were to be distinguished from the false, and that, after judgment had, those should obtain credit who deserved it. He now subjoins the punishment of such as should creep in under the name of a prophet to draw away the people into... read more