#sibylline oracles

[a-queer-seminarian]

“I am the One who is, but you consider in your heart. I am robed with heaven, draped around with sea, The earth is the support of My feet, around My body is poured The air, the entire chorus of stars revolves around Me.”

- Sibylline Oracles 1:137-140

[divinum-pacis]

The Sibylline Oracles

From the Sibylline Oracles, Book 3, lines 356-380.

O luxurious golden offspring of Latium, Rome...  as a slave will you be wed without decorum. Often the Mistress will cut your delicate hair and, dispensing justice, will cast you from heaven to earth, but from earth will again raise you up to heaven, because mortals are involved in a wretched and unjust life. ... Serene peace will return to the Asian land and Europe will then be blessed... For all good order and righteous dealing will come... and love, faithfulness, and friendship even from strangers. Bad government, blame, envy, anger, folly, poverty, will flee from men, and constraint will flee, and murder, accursed strife, and grievous quarrels, night robberies, and every evil in those days.

From the Sibylline Oracles, Book 3, lines 1-7 and 573-598.

Blessed, heavenly one, who thunders on high, who has the cherubim as your throne, I entreat you to give a little rest to me who have prophesied unfailing truth, for my heart is tired within. But why does my heart shake again? And why is my spirit lashed by a whip, compelled from within to proclaim an oracle to all? But I will utter everything again, as much as God bids me say to men. ...

There will again be a race of pious men [the Jews] who attend to the counsels and intention of the Most High, who fully honor the temple of the  great God with drink offering and burnt offering and sacred hecatombs.

...at dawn they lift up holy arms toward heaven, from their beds, always sanctifying their flesh with water, and they honor only the Immortal who always rules, and then their parents. Greatly, surpassing all men, they are mindful of holy wedlock, and they do not engage in impious intercourse with male children, as do Phoenicians, Egyptians, and Romans, spacious Greece and many nations of others.

Source: The Lost Bible: Forgetten Scriptures Revealed by J.R. Porter.

[sibyllinemagician]

Sibylline Oracles on Early Jewish Writings: a comprehensive sourcebook for ancient Judaism.

[jdavidstark]

 Geffcken, Oracula Sibyllina

Internet Archive has Johannes Geffcken’s critical edition of the Sibylline Oracles (Leipzig, 1902) in full-text PDF.

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Roman Emperors – Sibylline Oracles, Book 12

Roman Emperors – Sibylline Oracles, Book 12 -

This Oracle continues the themes of book 11, extending the history into the currant era. Augustus is described as a ruler no other Roman will ever exceed, a man God approved for this hour (14-35). There is a brief “Christian insertion” in 30-34 which predicts the coming of the Messiah, the “bright star like the sun.

The book includes sections on the emperors of Rome, including a comment about…

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A History of the World – Sibylline Oracles, Book 11

A History of the World – Sibylline Oracles, Book 11 -

Collins dates this book to the “turn of the era” and considers it an example of Diaspora Judaism.  We are therefore back to the early part of the development of the format of the sibyl, but as Collins notes, this is very different than Sibylline 3 and 5 (OTP 1:432).

This text is not particularly religions but is political propaganda, interested in Egyptian political movements. As such, there is…

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Christian or Gnostic? - Sibylline Oracle, Book 7

Christian or Gnostic? - Sibylline Oracle, Book 7 -

This is the least structured of the oracles and is probably a collection of various sources.  The work is Christian and probably is not based on any Jewish material.  As such, the Seventh Oracle represents the other end of the tangent begun in the earlier Jewish oracles. Christians placed prophecies in the mouth of a pagan oracle in order to give a universal validity to the claims of Christianity.

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