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Various Church Fathers

Chapter XVI.—Testimony of the Sibyl.

JUSTIN MARTYR — translated by ANF/NPNF editors

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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:—

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Then elsewhere thus:—

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And again somewhere else:—

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These are the Sibyl’s words.

Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.anf01.division.viii.en.

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