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Chapter XVI.—Testimony of the Sibyl.
We must also
mention what the ancient and exceedingly remote Sibyl, whom Plato and
Aristophanes, and others besides, mention as a prophetess, taught you in
her oracular verses concerning one only God. And she speaks
thus:—
“There
is one only unbegotten God,
Omnipotent,
invisible, most high,
All-seeing,
but Himself seen by no flesh.”
Then elsewhere thus:—
“But
we have strayed from the Immortal’s ways,
And
worship with a dull and senseless mind
Idols,
the workmanship of our own hands,
And
images and figures of dead men.”
And again somewhere else:—
“Blessed
shall be those men upon the earth
Who
shall love the great God before all else,
Blessing
Him when they eat and when they drink;
Trusting
it, this their piety alone.
Who
shall abjure all shrines which they may see,
All
altars and vain figures of dumb stones,
Worthless
and stained with blood of animals,
And
sacrifice of the four-fooled tribes,
Beholding
the great glory of One God.”
These are the Sibyl’s words.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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