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The Sibylline Oracles

Anonymous Jewish and Christian oracle collections in the voice of a Sibyl

The Christian acrostic describes a heavenly king judging the world, resurrection, cosmic change and the cross as a sign.

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Edition and location

Milton S. Terry, English blank-verse translation (1890), Elfinspell transcription.

Book VIII, English lines 268–309, printed pages 185–187; Greek acrostic lines 217–250