Sibylline Oracles
the Sibyl
cited 6 times by 3 works in the library · not held
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 3 citations · 5 passages
Named oracular source explicitly quoted.
Mortal men and made of flesh, who are nothing,
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 2 citations · 4 passages
Clement explicitly endorses the Sibyl as a trustworthy prophetic source, unlike the pagan oracles he attacks.
" This same prophetess calls the temples ruins, foretelling thus that the temple of Ephesian Artemis shall be swallowed up by chasms and earthquakes:
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Apologeticum Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation
Tertullian says pagan Sibyls falsified the name of truth as the pagan gods did.
You have, so far as I know, your Sibyl too, in so far as that title of a true prophetess of the true God has everywhere been usurped over the rest who seemed to prophesy.
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