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"The wicked ... worship stones and brute beasts instead of God, revering very many things, one here another there, which have no reason, or mind or hearing."
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"O MEN, why do ye vainly think on things Too lofty, as if ye immortal were?"
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The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century AD. They are not to be confused with the original Sibylline Books of the ancient Etruscans and Romans which were bur
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"There was once among men a shining light of the sun when the harmonious ray of the prophets was being spread abroad, a tongue dripping a beautiful drink for all mortals with honeyed sweetness; it made manifest, offered and effected gentle things for all."
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"The imperishable God who dwells in the sky in anger will case a lightning bolt from heaven against the power of the impious."
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