Sibylline Oracles
quoted 7 times by 3 works · not held
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 5 citations · 4 passages
The Sibyl is quoted denying all temples, altars, and stone idols defiled with sacrifices.
Blessed alone, then, so to speak, are all those, of one mind, of whom the Sibyl says, "who shall deny all temples when they see them, and altars, vain shrines of dumb stones, and stone xoana and statues made with hands, defiled with living blood and with sacrifices of four-footed creatures, of two-footed, of winged things, and with the slaughter of beasts.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of the Sibyl.
"Take the Greek books too, recognize the Sibyl, how she shows forth one God and the things that shall be;
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Apologeticum Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation
Tertullian names the Sibyl only to dismiss pagan claims to that title as false.
Your Sibyls have falsified the name of truth, just as your gods also have.
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