Sophia Scriptura

Sibylline Oracles in the early church

Texts outside the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. A bracket shows which other churches include a book in their Old Testament canon: RC = Roman Catholic, EO = Eastern Orthodox, ETH = Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo.

122 passages cite it, in date order.

PassageCitesKindDate
First Apology 20 · Justin Martyr—allusion, medium confidenceca. 150–155
First Apology 44 · Justin Martyr—allusion, low confidenceca. 150–155
To Autolycus 2.3 · Theophilus of Antioch—quotation, high confidenceca. 180–185
To Autolycus 2.31 · Theophilus of Antioch3.97–105quotation, high confidenceca. 180–185
To Autolycus 2.36 · Theophilus of Antiochfrag. 1 and 3quotation, high confidenceca. 180–185
A Plea for the Christians 30 · Athenagoras3.108–113quotation, high confidenceca. 176–180
The Instructor 2.10.99 · Clement of Alexandria5.166–168quotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
The Instructor 2.10.99 · Clement of Alexandria3.595–596quotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
The Instructor 3.3.15 · Clement of Alexandria3.185–187quotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 2.27 · Clement of Alexandriafrag. 1quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 4.50 · Clement of Alexandria4.4–7quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 4.50 · Clement of Alexandria5.296–297quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 4.50 · Clement of Alexandria5.484–487quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 4.62 · Clement of Alexandria4.24–30quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 6.70 · Clement of Alexandria3.586–594quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 6.71 · Clement of Alexandriafrag. 1.10–13quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 7.74 · Clement of Alexandriafrag. 1.27–28quotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
Exhortation to the Greeks 8.77 · Clement of Alexandriafrag. 1.28–35quotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Hortatory Address to the Greeks 16 · Anonymousfrag. 1.7-9quotation, high confidence2nd–3rd century (disputed)
Hortatory Address to the Greeks 16 · Anonymous4.24-30quotation, high confidence2nd–3rd century (disputed)
Miscellanies 1.21.108 · Clement of Alexandria—quotation, medium confidenceca. 198–203
Miscellanies 3.3.14 · Clement of Alexandriafrag. 1.1quotation, high confidenceca. 198–203
Miscellanies 5.14.108 · Clement of Alexandriafragment 1.10–13quotation, high confidenceca. 198–203
Miscellanies 5.14.115 · Clement of Alexandriafragment 1.28quotation, high confidenceca. 198–203
Miscellanies 6.5.43 · Clement of Alexandria—allusion, high confidenceca. 198–203
Apology 19 · Tertullian—allusion, low confidenceca. 197
To the Nations 2.12 · Tertullian3.108–110quotation, medium confidence197
Didascalia 5.7–9 (Latin) · Anonymous4.181–190quotation, high confidencefirst half of the third century
On Mount Sinai and Mount Zion 4 · Anonymous3.24–26allusion, medium confidence3rd cent. (disputed)
On the Pallium 2 · Tertullian3.363allusion, medium confidenceca. 205–211
Refutation of All Heresies 5.16.1 · Hippolytus of Rome—allusion, medium confidenceca. 222–235
Against Celsus 5.61 · Origen—allusion, low confidenceca. 248
Against Celsus 7.53 · Origen—allusion, medium confidenceca. 248
Against Celsus 7.56 · Origen—allusion, medium confidenceca. 248
Fragment 1 · Lactantius—allusion, low confidenceca. 290-325
Divine Institutes 1.6.13 · Lactantius—allusion, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 1.6.15 · Lactantiusfrag. 1quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 1.6.16 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 1.7.13 · Lactantius—allusion, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 1.8.3 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 1.11.47 · Lactantius8.47–48quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 1.14.8 · Lactantius3.110–155allusion, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 1.15.15 · Lactantius3.545–549quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 2.8.48 · Lactantius—allusion, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 2.10.4 · Lactantius8.402quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 2.11.18 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 2.12.19 · Lactantiusfrag. 3.46–49quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 2.12.20 · Lactantius1.39–42quotation, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 2.16.1 · Lactantius3.228–229quotation, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.6.5 · Lactantiusfrag. 1.5–6quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.6.5 · Lactantiusfrag. 1.33quotation, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.6.9 · Lactantiusfragmentquotation, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.13.21 · Lactantius6.8quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.15.9 · Lactantius8.272quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.15.15 · Lactantius8.205–207quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.15.18 · Lactantius8.275–278quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.15.24 · Lactantius8.273–274quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.15.25 · Lactantius6.13–15quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.15.29 · Lactantius3.815–818quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.16.17 · Lactantius8.257quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.17.4 · Lactantiusfragmentquotation, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.18.15 · Lactantius8.287–290quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.18.17 · Lactantius8.292–294quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.18.19 · Lactantius8.303–304quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.18.20 · Lactantius6.22–24quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.19.5 · Lactantius8.305–306quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.19.10 · Lactantius8.312–314quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 4.20.11 · Lactantius5.249quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 5.13.21 · Lactantius—quotation, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.7.8 · Lactantius—allusion, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.13.6 · Lactantius—allusion, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.15.18 · Lactantius—allusion, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.16.11 · Lactantius4.174quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.16.13 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.18.5 · Lactantius—allusion, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.18.6 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.18.7 · Lactantius3.652-653quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.18.8 · Lactantius8.326-328quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.19.2 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.19.9 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.20.2 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.20.3 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.20.4 · Lactantius8.413-416quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.23.4 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.24.1 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.24.2 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.24.6 · Lactantius5.420-421quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.24.12 · Lactantius3.788-795quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.24.13 · Lactantius3.619-623quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.24.14 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 303–311
Divine Institutes 7.25.7 · Lactantius8.165allusion, high confidenceca. 303–311
On the Anger of God 22.7 · Lactantiusfrag. 3.17–19quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
On the Anger of God 22.8 · Lactantius3.763–766quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
On the Anger of God 23.3 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
On the Anger of God 23.4 · Lactantius4.51–53quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
On the Anger of God 23.5 · Lactantius4.159–161quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
On the Anger of God 23.7 · Lactantius4.162–163quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
On the Anger of God 23.7 · Lactantius4.168–169quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
On the Anger of God 23.8 · Lactantius—quotation, high confidenceca. 313–314
Preparation for the Gospel 9.15.1 · Eusebius of Caesarea3.97–104quotation, medium confidenceca. 313–324
Preparation for the Gospel 13.13.35 · Eusebius of Caesareafr. 1quotation, high confidenceca. 313–324
Preparation for the Gospel 13.13.42 · Eusebius of Caesareafr. 1quotation, high confidenceca. 313–324
Epitome of the Divine Institutes 5.3 · Lactantiusfrag. 1allusion, high confidenceca. 314–320
Epitome of the Divine Institutes 37.2 · Lactantius8.264allusion, medium confidenceca. 314–320
Epitome of the Divine Institutes 37.6 · Lactantius—allusion, medium confidenceca. 314–320
Epitome of the Divine Institutes 40.3 · Lactantius8.272–278allusion, medium confidenceca. 314–320
Epitome of the Divine Institutes 65.6 · Lactantius—allusion, low confidenceca. 314–320
Epitome of the Divine Institutes 67.5 · Lactantius3.788–795allusion, medium confidenceca. 314–320
Epitome of the Divine Institutes 68.1 · Lactantius—allusion, medium confidenceca. 314–320
On the Deaths of the Persecutors 2.8 · Lactantius4.119–124allusion, high confidenceca. 314–315
Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 2.1.11 · Epiphanius of Salamis3.101allusion, low confidence374-377
Apostolic Constitutions 5.7.13 · Anonymous4.179-190quotation, high confidenceca. 380
Against Faustus the Manichaean 13.1 · Augustine of Hippo—allusion, low confidenceca. 398–400
Against Faustus the Manichaean 13.2 · Augustine of Hippo—allusion, low confidenceca. 398–400
Against Faustus the Manichaean 13.15 · Augustine of Hippo—allusion, low confidenceca. 398–400
Against Faustus the Manichaean 13.17 · Augustine of Hippo—allusion, low confidenceca. 398–400
The Harmony of the Gospels 1.27 · Augustine of Hippo—allusion, low confidenceca. 399–400
The Harmony of the Gospels 1.28 · Augustine of Hippo—allusion, low confidenceca. 399–400
Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 73–74 · Anonymous—allusion, medium confidence5th century (disputed)
City of God 18.23 · Augustine of Hippo8.217-243quotation, high confidence413–426
City of God 18.23 · Augustine of Hippo8.287-320quotation, medium confidence413–426
City of God 18.46 · Augustine of Hippo—allusion, medium confidence413–426