# Sibylline Oracles (Christian books 6-8) - Author: Anonymous - Latin title: *Oracula Sibyllina* - Date: 2nd-3rd cent. (approximate) - Source: Johannes Geffcken, ed., Die Oracula Sibyllina, Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte 8 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1902) - Translation: Claude, from the original text, unless a passage says otherwise; each passage below gives the translator - Editions and translations: Aloisius Rzach, Oracula Sibyllina (Vienna, 1891) - Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/ - Passages: 69 ## Sibylline Oracles 6.1ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-6-1 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl proclaims the immortal Son, enthroned by the Father before his birth, baptized in the Jordan, where the Spirit came upon him as a dove. ### Greek text Aöyos ἕχτος. "Adavarov μέγαν υἱὸν ἀοίδιμον ἐκ φρενὸς αὐδῶ, ᾧ ϑρόνον ὕψιστος γενέτης παρέδωχε λαβέσϑαι οὔπω γεννηϑέντι ἐπεὶ κατὰ σάρκα τὸ δισσόν ἠγέρϑη, προχοαῖς ἀπολουσάμενος ποταμοῖο Ἰορδάνου, ὃς φέρεται γλαυχῷ ποδί, κύματα σύρων. ὃς πυρὸς ἐχφεύξας πρῶτος ϑεὸν ὄψεται ἡδύν πνεύματι γενόμενον, λευκαῖς πτερύγεσσι πελείης. ἀνϑήσει δ᾽ ἄνϑος καϑαρόν, βρύσουσι δὲ πηγαί. δείξει δ᾽ ἀνϑρώποισιν ὁδούς, δείξει δὲ κελεύϑους οὐρανίας" πάντας δὲ σοφοῖς μύϑοισι διδάξει. ### English translation (Claude) Sixth Book. The great immortal Son, renowned in song, I proclaim from my heart, to whom the Most High Father gave a throne to receive when he was not yet born; since according to the flesh he was raised up a second time, having washed himself in the outpourings of the river Jordan, which moves with grey-blue foot, sweeping its waves along. He, having escaped the fire, will be the first to see God, sweet, coming in the Spirit, on the white wings of a dove. A pure flower will blossom, and springs will gush forth. He will show men ways, he will show the paths of heaven; and he will teach all with wise words. ### Scripture references - Matt 3:16: allusion, high confidence - Mark 1:10: allusion, high confidence - Ps 110:1 (109:1 LXX): echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - The Sibylline Oracles are hexameter oracles in the name of the ancient Sibyl; Books 6–8 are Christian (or Christianized) compositions of the second and third centuries. They are translated here line by line from Geffcken's edition (GCS 8, 1902), as read from an uncorrected OCR in which some words are garbled; such words are translated by sense or marked "…". The Sibyl's oracles are translated as written. - Echoes: Mark 1:9–11; Matt 3:16; Ps 110:1. "Raised up a second time according to the flesh" (κατὰ σάρκα τὸ δισσόν ἠγέρθη) is obscure; translated literally. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 6.1 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-6-1). ## Sibylline Oracles 6.11ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-6-11 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells Christ's miracles, his birth from the house of David, and his appearing like lightning. ### Greek text ἥξει δ᾽ ἔς τε δίκην καὶ πείσει λαὸν ἀπειϑῆ αἰνετὸν αὐχήσας πατρὸς γένος οὐρανίδαο. κύματα πεζεύσει, νόσον ἀνθρώπων ἀπολύσει, στήσει τεϑνηῶτας, ἀπώσεται ἄλγεα πολλά" ἐκ δὲ μιῆς πήρης ἄρτου κόρος ἔσσεται ἀνδρῶν, οἶχος ὅταν Δαυὶδ φύῃ φυτόν" ἐν χερὶ δ᾽ αὐτοῦ κόσμος ὅλος καὶ γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς ἠδὲ ϑάλασσα. ἀστράψει δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆν, οἷόν ποτε πρῶτα φανέντα εἶδον ἀπ᾿ ἀλλήλων πλευρῶν δύο γεννηϑέντες. ἔσσεται, ἡνίκα γαῖα χαρήσεται ἐλπίδι παιδός. ### English translation (Claude) He will come to judgment and persuade a disobedient people, boasting of the praiseworthy race of his heavenly Father. He will walk upon the waves, he will free men from disease, he will raise the dead, he will drive away many pains; and from one wallet there will be bread to fill men, when the house of David puts forth a shoot; and in his hand is the whole world, and earth and heaven and sea. He will flash like lightning upon the earth, as once, when he first appeared, the two born from each other's sides saw him. It will be when the earth rejoices in the hope of a child. ### Scripture references - Matt 14:25: allusion, high confidence - Matt 11:5: allusion, high confidence - Matt 14:20: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 11:1: allusion, high confidence - Matt 24:27: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 2:21: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "The two born from each other's sides" are Adam and Eve (Eve formed from Adam's side). Echoes: Matt 14:25; Matt 11:5; Matt 14:19–21; Isa 11:1; Matt 24:27. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 6.11 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-6-11). ## Sibylline Oracles 6.21ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-6-21 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl pronounces woe on the land that crowned God with thorns and gave him gall, and blesses the wood of the cross, which will see heaven. ### Greek text σοὶ δὲ μόνῃ, Σοδομῖτι γαίη, κακὰ πήματα κεῖται" αὐτὴ γὰρ δύσφρων τὸν σὸν ϑεὸν οὐχ ἐνόησας ἐλϑόντα ϑνητοῖσιν ἐν ὀμμασιν᾽ ἀλλ᾿ ἀπ᾿ ἀκάνϑης ἔστεψας στεφάνῳ, φοβερὴν δὲ χολὴν ἐχέρασσας εἰς ὕβριν καὶ "πνεῦμα "" τό σοι “κακὰ πήματα τεύξει. ὦ ξύλον ὦ μακαριστόν, ἐφ᾽ οὐ ϑεὸς ἐξετανύσϑη, οὐχ ἕξει σε χϑών, ἀλλ᾽ οὐρανὸν οἶχον ἐσόψει, ἡνίχα ἀστράψειζε) τὸ σόν, ϑεός, ἔμπυρον ὄμμα. ### English translation (Claude) But for you alone, land of Sodom, evil woes are laid up; for you yourself, ill-minded, did not perceive your God coming before the eyes of mortals; but with the thorn you crowned him with a crown, and you mixed fearful gall for insult, and a drink, which will bring you evil woes. O wood, O most blessed, on which God was stretched out, the earth will not hold you, but you will look upon heaven as your home, when your fiery eye, O God, flashes forth. ### Scripture references - Matt 27:29: allusion, high confidence - Matt 27:34: allusion, high confidence - Rev 11:8: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - "Land of Sodom" is the oracle's name for Judea (cf. Isa 1:10; Rev 11:8); the polemic is translated as written. "A drink" reads by sense a garbled word in the OCR. Echoes: Matt 27:29, 34. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 6.21 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-6-21). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.1ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-1 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Seventh Book opens with woes on Rhodes, Cyprus, Delos, and Sicily, and recalls the flood from which Noah alone escaped. ### Greek text Ἔχ τοῦ ἑβδόμου λόγου. Ὦ Ῥύδε δειλαίη 00 σὲ γὰρ πρώτην, σὲ δακρύσω" ἔσσῃ δὲ πρώτη πόλεων, πρώτη δ᾽ ἀπολέσοσῃ, ἀνδρῶν μὲν χήρη, βιότου δέ τε πάμπαν *adsvang* Κύπρε, σὲ δ᾽ ἐξολέσει γλαυκῆς ποτε κῦμα ϑαλάσσης" Δῆλε, σὺ μὲν πλεύσεις καὶ ἐφ᾽ ὕδατος ἄστατος ἔσσῃ" Σικελίη, φλέξει σε τὸ καιόμενον κατὰ σοῦ πῦρ. τοῦτο, λέγω, τὸ ϑεοῦ φοβερὸν καὶ ἐπήλυτον ὕδωρ. No&£ τις ἐκ πάντων μοῦνος φυγὰς ἤλυϑεν ἀνδρῶν. πλεύσει γῆ, πλεύσει δὲ 00N, πλεύσει δὲ καὶ αἰϑήρ. ὕδωρ ἔσται ἅπαντα καὶ ὕδασι πάντ᾽ ἀπολεῖται. ### English translation (Claude) From the seventh book. O wretched Rhodes, for you first, for you I will weep; you will be first of cities, and first you will perish, bereft of men, and utterly … of livelihood. Cyprus, the wave of the grey sea will one day destroy you. Delos, you will float, and be unstable on the water. Sicily, the fire that burns beneath you will consume you. This, I say, is the fearful and coming water of God. Noah alone of all men came out as a fugitive. The earth will float, … will float, and the sky will float. All will be water, and by waters all will perish. ### Scripture references - Gen 7:23: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - A line of Geffcken's apparatus at the head of the book and a stray fragment of a line are removed by logged corrections. Two words are garbled in the OCR and marked "…". Echoes: Gen 7:17–23. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.1 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-1). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.11ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-11 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the age after the flood, Phrygia's idolatry, and the sufferings of Ethiopia and Egypt. ### Greek text στήσονται δ᾽ ἄνεμοι καὶ δεύτερος ἔσσεται αἰών. ὦ Φρυγίη, πρώτη δ᾽ ἀναλάμψεις ὕδατος ἄκρου" πρώτη δ᾽ εἰς ἀσέβειαν ἀπαρνήσῃ ϑεὸν αὐτή εἰδώλοις ἀλάλοις κεχαρισμένη, ὅσσα σε, δειλή, ἐξολέσει πολλῶν περιτελλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν. Αἰϑίοπες δύστηνοι *ön’* ἄλγεα οἰκτρὰ παϑόντες ῥομφαίαις πλήξονται ὑπὸ χρόα πεπτηῶτες. τῆν λιπαρὴν Αἴγυπτον ἀεὶ σταχύεσσι μέλουσαν, ἣν Νεῖλος νηχτοῖς ὑπὸ χεύμασιν ἑπτὰ μεϑύσκει, ἀλλήλων ἔμφυλος ὀλεῖ στάσις" ἔνϑεν ἀέλπτως ### English translation (Claude) And the winds will cease, and there will be a second age. O Phrygia, you will be the first to shine forth from the top of the water; you first will deny God in impiety, delighting in dumb idols, which, wretched one, will destroy you as many years revolve. The wretched Ethiopians, suffering pitiable pains, will be struck with swords, cowering in their bodies. Rich Egypt, ever caring for ears of grain, which the Nile makes drunk with seven swimming streams, kindred strife among themselves will destroy; then unexpectedly ### Translation notes - A margin line number in the OCR is removed by a logged correction; one word in the line on the Ethiopians is garbled and omitted. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.11 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-11). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.21ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-21 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the end of Apis's worship, woe on Laodicea, and a pillar of fire set by God in heaven to destroy evildoers. ### Greek text ἀνέρες ἐξελάσουσι τὸν οὐ ϑεὸν ἀνδράσιν "Anıy. αἰαῖ, Δαοδίκεια, σὺ δ᾽ οὐ ϑεὸν οὐποτ᾽ ἰδοῦσα ψεύσῃ, τολμηρή᾽ κλύσσει δέ σε κῦμα Δύχοιο. αὐτὸς "ὁ γεννηϑεὶς Ἐ ὃ μέγας ϑεὸς *aoro ὃς" πολλά ποιήσει, κρεμάσει δὲ δι᾽ αἰϑέρος ἄξονα μέσσον, στήσει δ᾽ ἀνϑρώποισι μέγαν φόβον ὑψόσ ἰδέσϑαι κίονα μετρήσας μεγάλῳ πυρί, οὗ ῥαϑάμιγγες ἀνϑρώπων ὀλέσουσι γένη κακὰ δηλησάντων. ἔσται γάρ ποτε κεῖνος ἅπαξ χρόνος, ἔνϑα δὲ φῶτες ἐξιλάσουσι ϑεόν, ἀλλ οὐ παύσουσιν ἀνίας ### English translation (Claude) men will drive out Apis, who is no god for men. Alas, Laodicea, you who never saw God will lie, bold one; the wave of the Lycus will wash over you. He himself, the begotten, the great God, … will do many things, and will hang the middle axis through the aether, and will set up for men a great terror to see on high, measuring out a pillar with great fire, whose drops will destroy the races of men who did evil harm. For there will be once that time, when men will seek to appease God, but will not stop the griefs ### Translation notes - "Apis" reads the OCR's "Anıy"; one word after "the great God" is garbled and marked "…". The pillar of fire is a sign of the end in the oracle's own imagery. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.21 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-21). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.31ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-31 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells that all will be fulfilled through the house of David, to whom God gave the throne and subjected the angels. ### Greek text ἀκράντους. Δαυὶδ δὲ δι’ οἴχου πάντα τελεῖται. τῷ γάρ τ᾽ αὐτὸς ἔδωκε ϑεὸς ϑρόνον ἐγγυαλίξας" οἱ δὲ διαγγελτῆρες ὑπαὶ ποσὶ κοιμήσονται, οἵ τε πυρὰς φαίνουσι καὶ ol ποταμοὺς *palvovoır,* οἵ τ᾽ ἄστη σῴζουσι καὶ οἱ πέμπουσιν ἀήτας. --- πολλοῖς δ᾽ av χαλεπὸς βίος ἀνθρώποισιν ἔπεισιν ἐσδύνων ψυχαῖσι καὶ ἀλλάσσων φρένας. ἀνδρῶν. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν 2x ῥίζης βλαστὸς νέος ὄμματα φύσῃ, Ἐτὴν xriow* ἢ ποτε πᾶσι τροφὴν διέδωκε περισσήν, Ἐν το ἢ ### English translation (Claude) that bring no fulfilment. But through the house of David all will be accomplished. For to him God himself gave the throne, placing it in his hand; and the messengers will sleep beneath his feet, those who show the fires, and those who show the rivers, and those who keep the cities, and those who send the winds. But a hard life will come upon many men, entering into souls and changing the minds of men. But when from the root a new shoot puts forth its eyes, … which once gave abundant food to all, … ### Scripture references - Luke 1:32: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 11:1: allusion, high confidence - Ps 8:6 (8:7 LXX): echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - The "messengers" are angels who govern fire, rivers, cities, and winds. The last two lines are garbled in the OCR and are marked "…". Echoes: Isa 11:1; Luke 1:32; Ps 8:6; Heb 1:7. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.31 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-31). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.41ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-41 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the Persians' incestuous marriages and their wars with Rome. ### Greek text “Ὁ καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀμφὶ *xoovors* ἔσται πλέον. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἄλλοι ἄρξωνται Πέρσαι μαχίμων φῦλον, αὐτίχα δεινοί" ἔσσονται ϑάλαμοι νυμφῶν διὰ δύσνομα φῦλα. ἕξει. γὰρ μήτηρ E0v υἱέα καὶ πόσιν" υἱός μητέρα δηλήσει: ϑυγάτηρ δ᾽ ἐπὶ πατρὶ κλιϑεῖσα βάρβαρον ὑπνώσει τοῦτον νόμον" ὕστερα δ᾽ αὐτοῖς ἐχκλάμψει Ῥωμαῖος Ἄρης πολλῆς ἀπὸ λόγχης" αἵματι δ᾽ ἀνδρομέῳφ πολλὴν χϑόνα φυρήσουσιν. Ἰπαλίης δὲ πρόμος τότε φεύξεται ἐκ δορὸς ἀλκῆς. λείψουσιν δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆς χρυσῷ κεχαραγμένον ὄμθος “ἐκπρομολόντα φέρον γε ἀεὶ σημεῖον ἀνάγκης. ### English translation (Claude) … and the things about … will be greater. But when others, the Persians, a race of warriors, begin to rule, at once terrible will be the bridal chambers because of lawless races. For the mother will have her own son as husband; the son will defile his mother; and the daughter, lying with her father, will sleep according to this barbarian law. Afterwards upon them Roman Ares will flash out from many a spear, and they will soak much land in human blood. And the chief of Italy will then flee from the might of the spear. And they will leave upon the earth a shower engraved with gold, coming forth, ever bearing a sign of necessity. ### Translation notes - The charge of incestuous marriage among the Persians is a commonplace of Greek polemic, repeated by the oracle; translated as written. Several words are garbled in the OCR; the last two lines are obscure. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.41 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-41). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.51ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-51 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl pronounces woes on Ilium, Colophon, Thessaly, and Corinth. ### Greek text ἔσται μάν, ὅτε πᾶσα κακὴ καὶ δύσμορος οἰκτρῶς Ἰλιὰς ἐχπίεται τάφον, οὐ γάμον, ἔνϑα βαϑεῖα κλαύσουσιν νύμφαι, ὅτι δὴ ϑεὸν οὐκ ἐνόησαν, ἀλλ᾽ αἰεὶ τυπάνοις “καὶ κρότοις τ᾽ ὃ ἦχον ἔδωκαν. μαντεύου, Κολοφών" μέγα σοι κρέμαται φοβερὸν πῦρ. Θεσσαλίη δύσνυμφε, σὲ δ᾽ ὄψεται οὐχέτι γαῖα οὐδὲ FON πλεύσῃ δὲ μόνη φυγὰς ἠπείροιο. Ἑαὐτοῖς ἢ ὦ τλῆμον, σχύβαλον πολέμου λυγρὸν ἔσσῃ, Ἑὠ κυσὶ καὶ ποταμοῖς καὶ ᾿ δομφαίαισι πεσοῦσα. ὦ τλῆμόν γε Κόρινϑε, σὺ δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ αὐτὴν βαρὺν Ἄρην ### English translation (Claude) There will come a time indeed when all evil and ill-fated Ilias, pitiably, will drink out a tomb, not a marriage, where deeply the brides will weep, because they did not perceive God, but always gave forth noise with drums and clapping. Prophesy, Colophon: a great and fearful fire hangs over you. Thessaly, unhappy in marriage, the earth will no longer see you, nor …; but you alone will sail, a fugitive from the mainland. … O wretched one, you will be the grievous refuse of war, … fallen to dogs and rivers and swords. O wretched Corinth, about yourself grievous Ares ### Translation notes - Several words are garbled in the OCR and are marked "…". ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.51 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-51). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.61ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-61 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl laments Syria for not knowing its God, the Word who was baptized in the Jordan, author of creation with the Father and the Spirit, who took flesh and returned to the Father. ### Greek text δέξῃ, δειλαίη, καὶ ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἀπολεῖσϑε. Τύρε, σὺ δ᾽ ἡλίκα (δὴ) λήψῃ μόνη εὐσεβέων γάρ ἀνδρῶν χηρεύουσ᾽ ὀλιγηφρενίῃσι διοίσει. ἃ Συρίη κοίλη, Φοινίχων ὕστατον ἀνδρῶν, οἷς ἐπερευγομένη κεῖται Βηρυτιὰς ἅλμη, τλήμων, οὐχ ἔγνως τὸν σὸν ϑεόν, ὃν ποτ᾽ ἔλουσεν ᾿Ιόρδανος ἐν “τριτάτοισι" καὶ ἔπτατο πνεῦμα πελείῃ, ὃς πρὶν καὶ γαίης τε καὶ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος αὐϑέντης γένετο λόγος πατρὶ πνεύματί 9 ayvo τὸ σάρκα τε δυσάμενος ταχὺς ἵπτατο πατρὸς ἐς οἴκους. ### English translation (Claude) you will receive, wretched one, and you will perish at one another's hands. Tyre, how much you alone will receive! For, bereft of pious men, you will be ruined by folly. O hollow Syria, last land of Phoenician men, against whom the Berytian brine lies belching, wretched one, you did not know your God, whom once the Jordan washed in its third streams, and the Spirit flew as a dove, who before was also the author of earth and of starry heaven, the Word, with the Father and the holy Spirit, and having put on flesh, swiftly flew to his Father's house. ### Scripture references - Mark 1:10: allusion, high confidence - John 1:3: allusion, high confidence - John 1:14: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 28:19: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - "In its third streams" (ἐν τριτάτοισι) is obscure, perhaps alluding to triple immersion; uncertain. Echoes: Mark 1:9–10; John 1:1–3, 14; Matt 28:19. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.61 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-61). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.71ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-71 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl tells of three towers in heaven where Hope, Piety, and Reverence dwell, and of a sacrifice offered not with incense or slaughter but with prayer and birds released to heaven. ### Greek text τρεῖς δ᾽ αὐτῷ πύργους μέγας Οὐρανὸς ἐστήριξεν, ἐν τῷ δὴ ναίουσι ϑεοῦ νῦν μητέρες ἐσϑιλαί, ’Eiris τ᾽ Eöoeßin τε Σεβασμοσύνη τε ποϑεινή, οὐ χρυσῷ χαίρουσαι ἢ ἀργύρῳ, ἀλλὰ σεβασμοῖς ἀνθρώπων ϑυσίαις τε δικαιοτάτοις τε λογισμοῖς. ϑύσεις δ᾽ ἀϑανάτῳ ϑεῷ μεγάλῳ ἀγερώχῳ οὐ χόνδρον τήξας λιβάνου πυρὶ οὐδὲ μαχαίρῃ ἀρνειὸν κόψας λασιότριχα, ἀλλ᾿ ἅμα πᾶσιν, οἱ τεὸν αἷμα φέρουσι, λαβὼν *ayoinva πετεινά εὐξάμενος πέμψεις εἰς οὐρανὸν ὄμματα τείνας" ### English translation (Claude) And three towers great Heaven set fast for him, in which now dwell the noble mothers of God, Hope and Piety and longed-for Reverence, rejoicing not in gold or silver, but in the reverence of men, and in sacrifices and in most righteous thoughts. You will sacrifice to the immortal God, great and lordly, not melting a grain of frankincense in the fire, nor with a knife slaying a shaggy ram, but together with all who bear your blood, taking wild birds, having prayed, you will send them to heaven, lifting up your eyes; ### Translation notes - "Who bear your blood" means one's kin. The rite described (releasing birds, pouring water on fire) is the oracle's own and does not correspond to a known church practice; translated as written. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.71 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-71). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.81ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-81 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl prescribes a prayer with water poured on fire in memory of Christ's baptism, and hospitality to the poor stranger with a threefold prayer. ### Greek text ὕδωρ δὲ σπείσεις καϑαρῷ πυρὶ τοῖα βοήσας" ‚og σε λόγον γέννησε πατήρ "πάτερ" ὄρνιν ἀφῆκα, ὀξὺν ἀπαγγελτῆρα λόγων λόγον, ὕδασιν ἁγνοῖς ῥαίνων σὸν βάπτισμα, di οὗ πυρὸς ἐξεφαάνϑης. --- οὐδὲ ϑύρην κλείσεις, ὅτε τίς σοι ἐπήλυτος ἄλλος ἥξει δευόμενος πενίην λιμόν τ᾽ ἀπερύχειν. ἀλλὰ λαβὼν κεφαλὴν τοῦδ᾽ ἀνέρος ὕδατι ῥδάνας εὖξαι τρίς" τῷ σῷ δὲ ϑεῷ μάλα τοῖα βόησον" οὐκ ἔραμαι πλούτου" λιτὸς δέ τε λιτὸν ἐδέγμην" ἄμφω δὸς σύ, πάτερ, σύ, χορηγητήρ, ἐπάκουσον. ### English translation (Claude) and you will pour water on pure fire, crying out thus: "As the Father begot you, the Word, Father, I have released a bird, a swift messenger of words, the Word, sprinkling with holy waters your baptism, through which you were revealed from fire." Nor will you shut the door when some other stranger comes to you, needing to ward off poverty and hunger; but taking this man's head and sprinkling it with water, pray three times; and cry aloud to your God thus: "I do not long for wealth; poor, I have received a poor man; give both, Father; you, the provider, hear me." ### Scripture references - Matt 25:35: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The address and the rite are obscure in the Greek and partly garbled in the OCR; translated by sense. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.81 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-81). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.91ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-91 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: After a prayer to the undefiled God whom hands did not make, the Sibyl foretells the disappearance of Sardinia beneath the sea. ### Greek text εὐξαμένῳ δώσει 001° ἀπήγαγεν ἔχτοτε δ᾽ ἀνήρ um ϑλίψῃς us, ϑεοῦ ἱερὸν σέβας ἠδὲ δίκαιον, *ayvov ἀδούλωτον περὶ γένναν ἐλεγχϑὲν . . .* τλήμονά μου κραδίην στῆσον, πάτερ' εἰς σὲ δέδορχα, εἰς σὲ τὸν ἄχραντον, τὸν μὴ χέρες ἐργάσσαντο. Σαρδώ, νῦν σὺ βαρεῖα, μεταλλάξῃ ἐς τέφρην. ἔσσῃ δ᾽ οὐχέτι νῆσος, ὅταν δέκατος χρόνος ἔλϑη. ζητήσουσι πλέοντες ἐν ὕδασιν οὐχέτ᾽ ἐοῦσαν, ἀλκυόνες δ᾽ ἐπὶ σοὶ οἰκτρὸν γόον αἰάξουσιν. Movydovin τρηχεῖα, δυσέχβατε πυρσὲ ϑαλάσσης, ### English translation (Claude) To one who prays he will give … ; and thereafter the man … "Do not afflict me, the holy and righteous reverence of God, … pure, unenslaved, … proved concerning birth … Make firm my wretched heart, Father; I have looked to you, to you the undefiled, whom hands did not make." Sardinia, now heavy, you will change into ashes; you will no longer be an island when the tenth time comes. Sailors will seek you on the waters, but you will be no more, and halcyons will wail a piteous lament over you. Rugged Mygdonia, hard to land on, beacon of the sea, ### Scripture references - Acts 17:24: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The first three lines are garbled in the OCR (the editor marks one as corrupt); gaps are marked "…". "Whom hands did not make" echoes Acts 17:24–25. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.91 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-91). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.101ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-101 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the ruin of Mygdonia, of the Celtic land by the Alps, and of Rome after its rise over Macedonia. ### Greek text αὐχήσεις αἰῶνα, (di) αἰώνων ἀπολέσσῃ ϑερμῷ πνεύματι πᾶσα, μανήσῃ δ᾽ ἄλγεσι πολλοῖς. Κελτὶ γαίη, τὸ δὲ σὸν κατ᾽ 0005, παρὰ δύσβατον "Alnıy, ψάμμος ὅλην χώσει σε βαϑύς" φόρον οὐχέτι δώσεις, οὔ στάχυν, οὐ βοτάνας" πανέρημος ἔσῃ δ᾽ ἀπὸ λαῶν αἰεί, κρυμαλέοις δὲ παχυνομένη χρυστάλλοις λώβην ἐκχτίσεις, ἣν οὐκ ἐνόησας, ἄναγνε. Ῥώμη καρτερόϑυμε, Μακηδονίην μετὰ λόγχην ἀστράψεις ἐς Ὄλυμπον ϑεὸς δέ σε πάμπαν ἄπυστον ποιήσει, ὁπόταν δοχέῃς πολὺ κρεῖσσον ἐς ὄμμα ### English translation (Claude) you will boast for an age, but through the ages you will perish wholly by a hot wind, and you will rave with many pains. Celtic land, along your mountain, by the impassable Alps, deep sand will bury you wholly; you will no longer give tribute, no ear of grain, no pasture; you will be wholly desolate of peoples for ever, and thickened with icy crystals you will pay for the outrage which you did not perceive, unholy one. Rome, strong of spirit, after the Macedonian spear you will flash up to Olympus; but God will make you utterly unheard of, when you think, far stronger in appearance, ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.101 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-101). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.111ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-111 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl laments Rome, Syria, and Thebes, and foretells a fire on earth as great as the waters. ### Greek text ἑδραίη μίμνειν" τότε σοι τοιαῦτα βοήσω" ὀλλυμένη φϑέγξῃ λαμπρόν ποτε *xa, μαρμάραν σε" δεύτερά σοι, Ῥώμη, μέλλω πάλι δεύτερα φωνεῖν. ἄρτι δέ σε, Συρίη “λῆμον, “κατοδύρομαι οἰκτρῶς. Θῆβαι δύσβουλοι, ὑμῖν κακὸς ἦχος ἐπέσται αὐλῶν φϑεγγομένων, ὑμῖν σάλπιγξ κακὸν ἦχον ἠχήσει, ὄψεσϑε δ᾽ ἀπολλυμένην χϑόνα πᾶσαν. αἰαῖ σοι τλῆμον, αἰαῖ κοχόϑυμε ϑάλασσα. βρωϑήσῃ πυρὶ πᾶσα καὶ ἐξολέσεις λαὸν ἅλμῃ. ἔσται γάρ τε τοσοῦτον ἐπὶ χϑονὶ μαινόμενον πῦρ, ### English translation (Claude) that you will remain firmly established; then I will cry such things to you: "Perishing, you will once cry out aloud … ." A second time, Rome, I am about to speak to you again a second time. And now, wretched Syria, I lament you piteously. Thebes ill-counselled, an evil sound will come upon you of flutes sounding; for you the trumpet will sound an evil sound, and you will see the whole land perishing. Alas for you, wretched one, alas, sea of evil temper! You will be wholly devoured by fire, and destroy the people with brine. For there will be so much raging fire on the earth ### Translation notes - The second line is garbled in the OCR and is translated in part. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.111 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-111). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.121ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-121 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the world's destruction by fire and the endless torment of the wicked, who will learn that God's law does not deceive. ### Greek text ὅσσον ὕδωρ, ῥεύσει τε καὶ ἐξολέσει χϑόνα πᾶσαν. φλέξει ὅρη, καύσει ποταμούς, πηγὰς δὲ κενώσει. ἔσται κόσμος ἄκοσμος ἀπολλυμένων ἀνϑρώπων. καιόμενοι δὲ κακῶς τότε τλήμονες ἐμβλέψουσιν οὐρανόν, οὐχ ἄστροις, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν πυρὶ κεκμηῶτα. οὐδὲ ϑοῶς ὀλέχονται, ἀπολλυμένων δ᾽ ὑπὸ σαρχῶν πνεύματι καιόμενοι εἰς αἰώνων ἐνιαυτούς αἰεὶ δυσβασάνιστα ϑεοῦ νόμον εἰδήσουσιν οὐχ ἀπαφητὸν ἐόντα, βιαζομένη δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖα, ὅντινα τολμήσασα ϑεῶν ἐπεδέξατο βωμοῖς ### English translation (Claude) as there is water; and it will flow and destroy the whole earth. It will burn mountains, burn rivers, and empty the springs. The world will be no world, as men perish. And then the wretched, burning miserably, will look up at heaven, not with stars, but worn out in fire. Nor will they perish quickly, but, as their flesh perishes, burning in spirit for years of ages, for ever in grievous torments they will know the law of God to be not deceitful; and the earth, under constraint, whatever gods it dared to receive on its altars, ### Scripture references - 2 Pet 3:10: allusion, medium confidence - Mark 9:48: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - "The world will be no world" renders the play on κόσμος ἄκοσμος (an order without order). Echoes: 2 Pet 3:10–12; Mark 9:48. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.121 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-121). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.131ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-131 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl condemns false prophets in sheepskins who pretend to be Hebrews for gain, and foretells a new world after the first ogdoad. ### Greek text ψευδομένη, καπνὸν εἶδε di αἰϑέρος *arlyndevra*. κεῖνοι δὲ τλήσονται ἄγαν πόνον, οἱ διὰ κέρδος αἰσχρὰ προφητεύσουσι κακὸν χρόνον ἀλδαίνοντες. οἱ μὲν δυσάμενοι προβάτων λασιότριχα δινά Ἑβραῖοι ψεύσονται, ὃ μὴ γένος ἔλλαβον αὐτοί, ἀλλὰ λόγοις λαλέοντες ἐπ᾽ ἄλγεσι χερδαντῆρες οὐ βίον ἀλλάξουσι καὶ οὐ πείσουσι δικαίους, οἵτε ϑεὸν πάμπιστα διὰ φρενὸς ἱλάσκονται. ἐν δὲ τρίτῳ κλήρῳ περιτελλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν ὀγδοάδος πρώτης ἄλλος πάλι κόσμος ὁρᾶται. ### English translation (Claude) deceiving, it saw smoke through the boundless aether. And those will suffer very great toil, who for gain will prophesy shameful things, fostering an evil time. Those who, putting on the shaggy skins of sheep, will falsely claim to be Hebrews, a race they did not receive, but, speaking with words, profiting from sorrows, will not change their life, and will not persuade the righteous, who appease God most faithfully in their minds. And in the third lot of the revolving years of the first ogdoad, another world is seen again. ### Scripture references - Matt 7:15: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - One word in the first line is garbled in the OCR (read as "boundless"). The false prophets "in the shaggy skins of sheep" echo Matt 7:15; who is meant is uncertain. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.131 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-131). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.141ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-141 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells darkness and sulphur on the wicked, and then a renewed race eating manna, with God among them. ### Greek text γνὺξ ἔσται πάντη σὺ -- μακρὴ καὶ ἀπειϑής. καὶ τότε μὲν ϑείου δεινὴ περιβήσεται ὀδμή ἀγγέλλουσα φόγους, ὁπόταν κεῖνοι ἀπόλωνται γυχτί TE καὶ λιμῷ᾽ τότε γεννήσει καϑαρὸν νοῦν us ἀνϑρώπων, στήσει δὲ τεὸν γένος, ος πάρος ἣν σοι" οὐχέτι τις κόψει βαϑὺν αὐλακα γυρῷ ἀρότρφ᾽ οὐ βόες ἰϑυντῆρα κάτω βάψουσι σίδηρον" κλήματα δ᾽ οὐκ ἔσται οὐδὲ στάχυς" ἀλλ᾽ ἅμα πᾶντες μᾶάννην τὴν δροσερὴν λευκοῖσιν ὀδοῦσι φάγονται. σὺν δ᾽ αὐτοῖς ἔσται τότε καὶ ϑεός, ὃς σε διδάξει, ### English translation (Claude) There will be night everywhere, … long and unyielding. And then a dread smell of sulphur will spread around, announcing murders, when those perish by night and by hunger; then he will beget a pure mind … of men, and will establish your race, as it was for you before. No longer will anyone cut a deep furrow with the curved plough; no oxen will plunge the guiding iron down; there will be no vine-branches nor ears of grain; but all together will eat the dewy manna with white teeth. And with them then will be God too, who will teach you, ### Scripture references - Exod 16:14: allusion, medium confidence - Rev 21:3: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Two words are garbled in the OCR and marked "…". Echoes: Exod 16:14–15; Rev 21:3. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.141 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-141). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.151ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-151 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl confesses her own past sins, her many unlawful unions and her neglect of God's word, and foretells her death by stoning. ### Greek text os ἐμὲ τὴν λυγρήν. ὅσα γὰρ κακὰ πρόσϑεν ἔρεξα εἰδυῖ᾽, ἄλλα τε πολλὰ κακῶς ἐπόνησ᾽ ἀμελοῦσα. μυρία μέν μοι λέκτρα, γάμος δ᾽ οὐδεὶς ἐμελήϑη" πᾶσι δ᾽ ἐγὼ πανάπιστος ἐπήγαγον ἄγριον ὕρχον. δευομένους ἀπέκλεισα καὶ ἐν Ἐπρομολοῦσιν " ἰοῦσα ἘἸχελον εἰς αὐλῶνα ϑεοῦ φάτιν 00x ἐνόησα. tovvsxa πῦρ u ἔφαγεν καὶ βρώσεται" οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτή ζήσομαι, ἀλλ᾽ ὀλέσει με κακὸς χρόνος, ἔνϑα τάφον μοι ἄνϑρωποι τεύξουσι παρερχόμενοί μὲ ϑαλάσσῃ. καί με λίϑοις ὀλέσουσ᾽ " ἐπ᾿ ἐμῷ γὰρ πατρὶ λαλοῦσα ### English translation (Claude) as he taught me, the wretched one. For all the evils I did before, knowingly, and many other things I wickedly wrought through neglect. Countless were my beds, but no marriage was my care; upon all I, utterly faithless, brought a savage oath. I shut out those in need, and going among … … I did not perceive the word of God. Therefore fire has eaten me and will devour me; for I myself will not live, but an evil time will destroy me, when men will build a tomb for me as they pass me by at the sea. And they will kill me with stones; for speaking against my father ### Translation notes - The Sibyl's confession of her own immorality is a known feature of this book; translated as written. Two lines are partly garbled in the OCR and marked "…". ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.151 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-151). ## Sibylline Oracles 7.161ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-161 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Seventh Book ends with the Sibyl calling for her own stoning, by which she will live and look to heaven. ### Greek text *yia φίλον" μετέδωκχα. βάλοιτέ με, βάλλετε πάντες" οὕτω γὰρ ζήσω καὶ ἐς οὐρανὸν ouuara πήξω. ### English translation (Claude) … I gave a share to my dear one. Stone me, stone me, all of you; for so I shall live and fix my eyes on heaven. ### Translation notes - The first word of the line is garbled in the OCR and marked "…". ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 7.161 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1/#p-7-161). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.1ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-1 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Eighth Book opens with the Sibyl announcing God's wrath in the last age and reviewing the kingdoms since Babel, ending with Rome. ### Greek text Ἐρχομένης μεγάλης ὀργῆς ἐπὶ κόσμον ἀπειϑῆ ἔσχατον εἰς αἰῶνα ϑεοῦ μηνίματα φαίνω πᾶσι προφητεύουσα κατὰ πτόλιν ἀνϑρώποισιν. ἐξότε δὴ πύργος τ᾽ ἔπεσεν γλῶσσαί T ἀνϑρώπων δ ἐς πολλὰς ϑνητῶν ἐμερίσϑησαν διαλέχτους, πρῶτα μὲν Αἰγύπτου βασιλήιον, εἶτα τὸ Περσῶν Μήδων Αἰϑιόπων τε καὶ ᾿ἀσσυρίης Βαβυλῶνος, εἶτα Μακηδονίης τῦφον μέγαν αὐχησάσης, πέμπτον δ᾽ εἶτ᾽ Ἰταλῶν κλεινὴ βασιλεία ἄϑεσμος ὑστάτιον πᾶσιν δείξει κακὰ πολλὰ βροτοῖσιν ### English translation (Claude) As great wrath comes upon a disobedient world in the last age, I make known the wrath of God, prophesying to all men city by city. Ever since the tower fell and the tongues of men were divided into the many dialects of mortals, first the kingdom of Egypt, then that of the Persians, of the Medes, the Ethiopians, and Assyrian Babylon, then that of Macedonia, which boasted great pride, then fifth the famous and lawless kingdom of the Italians will show, last of all, many evils to all mortals ### Scripture references - Gen 11:9: allusion, high confidence - Dan 2:40: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - A margin line numeral in the OCR is left out. Echoes: Gen 11:1–9; Dan 2:31–45; Dan 7:2–8. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.1 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-1). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.11ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-11 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells Rome's universal rule and the final fire, and names love of money as the beginning of all evils. ### Greek text καὶ πάσης γαίης ἀνδρῶν μόχϑους δαπανήσει. ἄξει δ᾽ ἀκμῆτας βασιλεῖς ἐϑνῶν ἐπὶ δυσμάς καὶ ϑεσμοὺς ϑήσει λαοῖς καὶ navy ὑποτάξει. ὀψὲ ϑεοῦ μύλοι *Y* ἀλέουσι τὸ λεπτὸν ἄλευρον. πῦρ τότε πάντ᾽ ὀλέσει καὶ λεπτὸν χοῦν ἀποδώσει ὑψικόμων ὀρέων κορυφὰς καὶ σαρκὸς ἁπάσης. ἀρχὴ πᾶσι κακῶν φιλοχρημοσύγνη καὶ ἄνοια. χρυσοῦ γὰρ δολίοιο καὶ ἀργυρίου πόϑος ἔσται" οὐδὲν γὰρ τούτων ϑνητοὶ μεῖζον προέχριναν, οὐ φάος ἠελίου, οὐκ οὐρανόν, οὐδὲ ϑάλασσαν, ### English translation (Claude) and will consume the toils of men of all the earth. And it will lead the unwearied kings of the nations to the west, and lay down laws for peoples and subdue all things. Late do the mills of God grind the fine flour. Then fire will destroy all and render to fine dust the peaks of lofty-crested mountains and all flesh. The beginning of evils for all is love of money and folly. For there will be a longing for deceitful gold and silver; for mortals have preferred nothing greater than these, not the light of the sun, not heaven, nor the sea, ### Scripture references - 1 Tim 6:10: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Late do the mills of God grind" is a Greek proverb ("the mills of the gods grind slowly"). Echoes: 1 Tim 6:10. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.11 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-11). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.21ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-21 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl condemns the love of gold as the source of impiety, war, and broken families, which makes even marriage a matter of gold. ### Greek text οὐ γαῖαν πλατύνωτον, ὅϑεν φύουσιν ἅπαντα, οὐ τὸν πάντα διδόντα ϑεόν, γεννήτορα πάντων, οὐ πίστιν τούτων καὶ εὐσεβίην προέκχριναν. πηγὴ δυσσεβίης καὶ ἀταξίης προοδηγός, μηχανίη πολέμων, εἰρήνης ἐχϑρὰ ἀνία ἐχϑραίνουσα τέχνοις γονέας καὶ τέχνα γονεῦσιν. κοὐδὲ γάμος δίχα χρυσοῦ ὅλως ποτὲ τίμιος ἔσται. γαῖά 8ϑ᾽ ὅρους ἕξει καὶ φρουροὺς πᾶσα ϑάλασσα πᾶσι μεριζομένη δολίως τοῖς χρυσὸν ἔχουσιν" 8 ὧἧς αἰῶσι ϑέλοντες ἔχειν πολυϑρέμμονα γαῖαν ### English translation (Claude) not the broad-backed earth, from which all things grow, not God who gives all things, the begetter of all; nor have they preferred faith and piety to these. Source of impiety and leader of disorder, contriver of wars, hateful grief of peace, making parents enemies to children and children to parents. Nor will marriage ever be honoured at all without gold. And the earth will have boundaries, and every sea its guards, divided deceitfully among all who have gold; … wishing to hold for ages the earth that nourishes many ### Scripture references - Mic 7:6: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - The first word of the last line is garbled in the OCR and marked "…". ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.21 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-21). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.31ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-31 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl condemns the rich who plunder the poor and foretells a heavenly blow that will raze proud Rome. ### Greek text πορϑήσουσι πένητας, ἵν αὐτοὶ πλείονα χῶρον προσπορίσαντες ἀλαζονίῃ καταδουλώσωσιν. κεὶ μὴ γαῖα πέλωρος ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος τὸν ϑρόνον εἶχε μακρήν, οὐχ ἦν ἴσον ἀνδράσι φέγγος, ἀλλ᾽ ἀγοραζόμενον χρυσῷ πλουτοῦσιν ὑπῆρχεν καὶ πτωχοῖς αἰῶν᾽ ἕτερον ϑεὸς ἡτοίμαζεν. ἥξει σοί ποτ᾽ ἄνωϑεν ἴση, ὑψαύχενε Ῥώμη, οὐράνιος πληγὴ καὶ κάμψεις αὐχένα πρώτη κἀξεδαφισϑήσῃ καὶ πῦρ σε ὅλην δαπανήσει κεκλιμένην ἐδάφεσσιν Eols, καὶ πλοῦτος ὀλεῖται ### English translation (Claude) they will plunder the poor, so that, acquiring more land for themselves, they may enslave them in their arrogance. And if the huge earth did not hold its throne far off from the starry heaven, the light would not be equal for men, but would be bought with gold and belong to the rich, and God would have prepared another age for the poor. There will come upon you one day from above, high-necked Rome, an equal heavenly stroke, and you will be the first to bend your neck, and you will be razed to the ground, and fire will consume you wholly, laid low upon your foundations, and your wealth will perish, ### Translation notes - One word in the last line is garbled in the OCR. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.31 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-31). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.41ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-41 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl mocks Rome's gods as lifeless demons and dead men whose tombs are in Crete, and foretells her desolation. ### Greek text καὶ σὰ ϑέμειλα λύκοι καὶ ἀλώπεκες οἰκήσουσιν. καὶ τότ᾽ ἔσῃ πανέρημος ὅλως, ὡς μὴ γεγονυῖα. ποῦ τότε Παλλάδιον; ποῖός σε ϑεὸς διασώσει, χρυσοῦς ἢ λίϑινος ἢ χάλκεος; ἢ τότε ποῦ σοι δόγματα συγκλήτου; ποῦ Ῥείης ἠὲ Κρόνοιο ἠὲ Διὸς γενεὴ καὶ πάντων, ὧν ἐσεβάσϑης, δαίμονας ἀψύχους, νεκύων εἴδωλα καμόντων, ὧν Κρήτη καύχημα τάφους ἡ δύσμορος ἕξει, ϑρησχεύουσα ϑρόνωσιν ἀναισϑήτοις νεκύεσσιν. ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε σοι βασιλεῖς, χλιδανή, τρὶς πέντε γένωνται ### English translation (Claude) and wolves and foxes will dwell in your foundations. And then you will be wholly desolate, as if you had never been. Where then is the Palladium? What god will save you, of gold or stone or bronze? Or where then for you are the decrees of the senate? Where is the race of Rhea or of Cronus or of Zeus, and of all whom you revered, lifeless demons, images of the worn-out dead, whose tombs ill-fated Crete will have as its boast, worshipping with thrones senseless corpses? But when, luxurious one, you have had three times five kings ### Scripture references - Lam 5:18: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - The claim that the Greek gods were dead men buried in Crete (the tomb of Zeus) is a commonplace of Christian polemic; translated as written. Echoes: Isa 13:21–22; Lam 5:18. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.41 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-41). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.51ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-51 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells a grey-headed emperor named like a sea, who travels the world, joins in the mysteries, and makes a boy a god. ### Greek text χόσμον δουλώσαντες ἀπ᾽ ἀντολίης μέχρι δυσμῶν, Ἐ σσετ᾽ ἄναξ πολιόχρανος ἔχων πέλας οὔνομα πόντου" κόσμον ἐποπτεύων μιαρῷ ποόί, δῶρα πορίζον, χρυσὸν μὲν πάμπλειστον ἔχον καὶ ἄργυρον ἐχϑρῶν πλείονα συλλέξας καὶ γυμνώσας ἀναλύσει. καὶ μαγικῶν ἀδύτων μυστήρια πᾶντα μεϑέξει, παῖδα ϑεὸν δεικνύσει, ἅπαντα σεβάσματα λύσει, Ἐχὰξ ἀρχῆς" τὰ πλάνης μυστήρια πᾶσιν ἀνοίξει. αἴλινος ἔκτοτε καιρός, or’ Allwog αὐτὸς ὀλεῖται. καί ποτε δῆμος ἐρεῖ ,μέγα σὸν κράτος, ἄστυ, πεσεῖται" ### English translation (Claude) who have enslaved the world from the east to the west, there will be a grey-headed lord, having a name close to that of a sea, surveying the world with polluted foot, bestowing gifts, having very much gold, and gathering still more silver from his enemies, and stripping them he will … . And he will take part in all the mysteries of the magic shrines, he will display a boy as a god, he will undo all objects of reverence, … he will open to all the mysteries of error. Thenceforth a time of lament, when he himself will perish. And one day the people will say: "Your great power, city, will fall," ### Translation notes - The emperor is Hadrian (named like the Adriatic), who deified his favourite Antinous. Several words are garbled in the OCR and marked "…". ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.51 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-51). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.61ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-61 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells mourning at the Tiber and three rulers after Hadrian, the first an old king hoarding the world's wealth. ### Greek text εἰδὼς εὐϑὺ τὸ μέλλον ἐπερχόμενον» κακὸν ἦμαρ. καὶ τότε πενϑήσουσιν ὁμοῦ τὴν σὴν προβλέποντες οἰκτροτάτην μοῖραν πατέρες καὶ νήπια τέχνα" αἴλινα ϑρηνήσουσι λυγροὶ παρὰ Θύμβριδος ύχϑαις. τὸν μέτα τρεῖς ἄρξουσι πανύστατον ἦμαρ ἔχοντες, οὔνομα πληρώσαντες ἐπουρανίοιο ϑεοῖο, οὐ τὸ χρᾶάτος καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς αἰῶνας ἅπαντας. εἷς μὲν πρέσβυς ἐὼν σκήπτρων ἐπὶ πουλὺ κρατήσει, οἰκτρότατος βασιλεύς, ὃς χρήματα κόσμου ἅπαντα τὸ δώμασιν ἐγκλείσει τηρῶν, ἵν᾽, ὅταν Y ἐπανέλϑῃ ### English translation (Claude) knowing at once the coming evil day. And then together they will mourn, foreseeing your most piteous fate, fathers and little children; wretched, they will sing laments beside the banks of the Tiber. After him three will rule, having the very last day, fulfilling the name of the heavenly God, whose is the power both now and for all ages. One, being old, will hold the sceptres for a long time, a most piteous king, who all the riches of the world will shut up in his houses, guarding them, so that, when there returns ### Translation notes - The three rulers after Hadrian are the Antonine emperors; "fulfilling the name of the heavenly God" is obscure (perhaps the title Pius). ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.61 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-61). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.71ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-71 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the return of the fugitive mother-slayer and the fall of Rome's glory and legions. ### Greek text &x περάτων γαίης ὃ φυγὰς μητροχτόγνος αἴϑοων, ταῦτα ἅπασι διδοὺς πλοῦτον μέγαν Asidı ϑήσει. καὶ τότε πενϑήσεις πλατυπόρφυρον ἡγεμονήων "pös* ἐχδυσαμένη καὶ πένϑιμον εἶμα φοροῦσα, τὸ ὦ βασιλὶς μεγάλαυχε, Aatıwidog ἔχγονε Ῥώμης" οὐχέτι σοι τῆς σῆς μεγαλαυχενίης κλέος ἔσται, οὐδ᾽ ὀρϑωϑήσῃ ποτὲ δύσμορος, ἀλλὰ κλιϑήσῃ᾽ καὶ γὰρ ἀετοφόρων λεγεώνων δόξα πεσεῖται. ᾿ ποῦ τότε σοι τὸ κράτος; ποία γῆ σύμμαχος ἔσται δουλωϑεῖσα τεαῖς ματαιοφροσύνῃσιν ἀϑέσμως; ### English translation (Claude) from the ends of the earth the fugitive mother-slayer, blazing, he will give these things to all and set great wealth for Asia. And then you will mourn, having put off the broad-purple robe of rulers and wearing a garment of mourning, O boastful queen, offspring of Latin Rome; no longer will you have the glory of your arrogance, nor will you ever be raised up, ill-fated one, but you will lie low; for the glory of the eagle-bearing legions too will fall. Where then is your power? What land will be your ally, lawlessly enslaved by your vain thoughts? ### Translation notes - "The fugitive mother-slayer" is Nero, whose return from the east was expected in legend; translated as written. One word is garbled in the OCR. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.71 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-71). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.81ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-81 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the coming of the Almighty to judge the living and the dead, and the calamities that will befall Rome. ### Greek text πάσης γὰρ γαίης ϑνητῶν τότε σύγχυσις ἔσται, αὐτὸς ὃ παντοχράτωρ ὅταν ἐλϑὼν βήματι κρίνῃ ζώντων καὶ νεκύων ψυχὰς καὶ κόσμον ἅπαντα. ® κοῦτε γονεῖς τέχνοισι φίλοι, οὐ τέχνα γονεῦσιν ἔσσονται διὰ δυσσεβίην καὶ ϑλῖψιν ἄελπτον. ἔχτοτέ σοι βρυγμὸς καὶ σκορπισμὸς καὶ. ἅλωσις, πτῶσις ὅταν ἔλϑῃ πόλεων καὶ χάσματα γαίης" πορφύρεός τε δράχων ὁπόταν ἐπὶ κύμασιν ἔλϑῃ γαστέρι πλῆϑος ἔχων καὶ ϑρέψει σεῖο τὰ τέκνα ἐσσομένου λιμοῦ TE καὶ ἐμφυλίου πολέμοιο, ### English translation (Claude) For then there will be confusion of mortals over all the earth, when the Almighty himself comes and judges from his tribunal the souls of the living and of the dead, and the whole world. Neither will parents be friends to their children, nor children to their parents, because of impiety and unlooked-for affliction. Thenceforth for you there will be gnashing and scattering and capture, when the fall of cities comes, and chasms of the earth; and when the purple dragon comes upon the waves, having a multitude in his belly, and afflicts your children, when there is to be famine and civil war, ### Scripture references - 2 Tim 4:1: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 10:21: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 8:12: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - "Afflicts" reads the OCR's θρέψει by sense. A stray mark in the OCR is left out. Echoes: 2 Tim 4:1; Mic 7:6 and Matt 10:21; Matt 8:12 (gnashing). ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.81 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-81). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.91ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-91 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl announces that the end and the last judgment are near, beginning with wrath on Rome, which came naked into the world and will go naked to judgment. ### Greek text ἐγγὺς μὲν κόσμου τὸ τέλος καὶ ἔσχατον ἥμαρ καὶ *doxiuoıs* κλητοῖς κρίσις ἀϑανάτοιο ϑεοῖο. πρῶτα δὲ Ῥωμαίων ἀπαραίτητος χόλος ἔσται, αἱμοπότης καιρὸς καὶ δύστηνος βίος ἥξει. αἰαῖ σοι, Train χώρη, μέγα βάρβαρον ἔϑνος, οὐχ ἐνόησας, ὅϑεν γυμνὴ καὶ ἀνάξιος ἦλϑες πρὸς φάος ἠελίοιο, ἵν᾿ εἰς αὐτὸν πάλι χῶρον γυμνὴ χωρήσῃς καὶ ὕστερον ἐς κρίσιν ἔλϑῃς ὡς ἀδίκως κρίνουσα.......« «νον νιν νον χερσὶ γιγαντείῃσι μόνη κατὰ κόσμον ἅπαντα ### English translation (Claude) near is the end of the world and the last day, and the judgment of the immortal God for the approved who are called. But first there will be implacable wrath against the Romans; a blood-drinking time and a wretched life will come. Alas for you, Italian land, great barbarian nation, you did not perceive whence you came, naked and unworthy, to the light of the sun, so that to the same place again you may go naked, and afterwards come to judgment as one who judges unjustly … . With giant hands, alone throughout the whole world, ### Scripture references - Job 1:21: allusion, medium confidence - Eccl 5:15: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - One line is broken off in the OCR (marked "…"). "Approved" reads by sense a garbled word. Echoes: Job 1:21; Eccl 5:15. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.91 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-91). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.101ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-101 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells Rome's burning and descent to Hades, and says that death levels rich and poor, who go naked into the earth. ### Greek text ἐξ ὕψους ἐλϑοῦσα κατοικήσεις ὑπὸ γαῖαν. νάφϑῃ κἀσφάλτῳ καὶ ϑείῳ καὶ πυρὶ πολλῷ ἐξαφανισϑήσῃ καὶ ἔσῃ κόνις αἰώνεσσιν αἰϑομένη" καὶ πᾶς ὁ βλέπων μυχηϑμὸν ἀκούσει 1 πένϑιμον ἐξ ᾿Δίδαο μέγαν καὶ βρυγμὸν ὀδόντων καὶ ταῖς σαῖς παλάμαις ἄϑεα στήϑη παταγοῦσαν. πᾶσιν ὁμοῦ νύξ ἐστιν ἴση τοῖς πλοῦτον ἔχουσιν καὶ πτωχοῖς" γυμνοὶ δ᾽ ἀπὸ γῆς, γυμνοὶ πάλιν ἐς γῆν ἥξαντες λήγουσι βίου χρόνον ἐκχτελέσαντες. το οὐδεὶς δοῦλος ἐχεῖ, οὐ κύριος, οὐδὲ τύραννος, ### English translation (Claude) having come down from on high, you will dwell beneath the earth. With naphtha and asphalt and sulphur and much fire you will vanish, and be dust for ages, burning; and everyone who looks will hear a great mournful bellowing from Hades, and gnashing of teeth, and you beating your godless breasts with your palms. For all alike there is equal night, for those who have wealth and for the poor; naked from the earth, naked again into the earth they come, and cease from life when they have completed their time. No one is slave there, no lord, nor tyrant, ### Scripture references - Gen 19:24: echo, medium confidence - Rev 19:20: echo, medium confidence - Matt 13:42: echo, medium confidence - Job 3:19: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Margin numerals in the OCR are left out. Echoes: Gen 19:24; Rev 19:20; Matt 13:42; Job 1:21; Job 3:19. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.101 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-101). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.111ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-111 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl lists the ranks, rites, music, and strife of this life that will have no place among the dead. ### Greek text οὐ βασιλεῖς, οὐχ ἡγεμόνες μᾶλα τῦφον» ἔχοντες, οὐ γνομικὸς ῥήτωρ, 00x ἄρχων χρήμασι κρίνων' οὐ ϑυσιῶν σπονδαῖς ἐπὶ βωμοῖς αἷμα χέουσιν᾽ τύμπανον οὐχ ἠχεῖ, οὐ κύμβαλον...........- οὐχ αὐλὸς πολύτρητος, ἔχοντα φρενοβλάβον αὐδήν, οὐ σχολιοῦ σύριγμα φέρον μίμημα δράκοντος, οὐ σάλπιγξ πολέμων ἀγγέλτρια βαρβαρόφωνος" οὐ κώμοις μεϑύοντες ἀϑέσμοις, οὐχὶ χορείαις" οὐ φϑόγγος κιϑάρης, οὐ μηχανίη κακοεργός" οὐχ ἔρις, οὐχ ὀργὴ πολυποίκιλος, οὐδὲ μάχαιρα ### English translation (Claude) no kings, no leaders with great pride, no orator full of maxims, no ruler judging for money; they do not pour blood on altars with libations of sacrifices; no drum sounds, no cymbal …, no many-holed flute, with its voice that harms the mind, no piping that bears the likeness of the crooked serpent, no barbarous-voiced trumpet, messenger of wars; no drunkards at lawless revels, no dances; no sound of the lyre, no evil-working contrivance; no strife, no many-coloured anger, no sword ### Translation notes - The end of one line is lost in the OCR (marked "…"). ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.111 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-111). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.121ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-121 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells, at an appointed time marked by the phoenix, the destruction of Rome's long rule. ### Greek text ἔστι παρὰ φϑιμένοις, ἀλλ᾽ αἰὼν κοινὸς ἅπασιν. παῖδες καὶ παίδων τούτου γενεὴ "ἀσαλεύτων Ὁ" ὡς γὰρ ϑέσφατόν ἐστι περιπλομένοιο χρόνοιο, ὁππόταν Αἰγύπτου βασιλεῖς τρὶς πέντε γένωνται. ἔνϑεν ὅταν φοίνικος ἐπέλϑῃ πενταχρόνοιο μο Ὃᾷἥξει πορϑήσων λαῶν γένος, ἄκριτα φῦλα, Ἑβραίων ἔϑνος. τότ᾽ "Aons ᾿άρεα προνομεύσει, Ῥωμαίων ὑπέροπλον ἀπειλὴν αὐτὸς ὀλέσσει. Astro {γὰρ) Ῥώμης ἀρχὴ τότε τηλεϑόωσα, ἀρχαίη πολέεσσι περικτιόνεσσιν ἄνασσα. ### English translation (Claude) is there among the dead, but an age common to all. Children, and the race of this one's children, unshaken … For so it has been decreed as time revolves, when the kings of Egypt have become three times five. Then, when the phoenix's period of five comes, there will come, to ravage the race of peoples, the tribes beyond judgment, the nation of the Hebrews. Then Ares will plunder Ares, and will himself destroy the overweening threat of the Romans. For then the flourishing rule of Rome will perish, the ancient queen over many neighbouring cities. ### Translation notes - The second line is garbled in the OCR and marked "…". The phoenix's period and the role given to "the nation of the Hebrews" are obscure; translated as printed. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.121 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-121). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.131ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-131 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells that Rome will last 948 years before its doom comes. ### Greek text Se ’ nm: ὃ ᾽ ‚ οὐχέτι vırnosıe πέδον Ῥώμης ἐριϑήλου, ς , 2 > , , ” \ ” ὁππόταν ἐξ Ασίης χρατέων ἔλϑῃ σὺν Aonı. ταῦτα δὲ πάντ᾽ ἔρξας ἥξει κρηπισϑὲν ἐς ἄστυ. τρὶς δὲ τριηκοσίους καὶ τεσσαράχοντα καὶ ὀκτώ πληρώσεις λυχάβαντας, ὅταν σοι δύσμορος ἥξῃ ### English translation (Claude) No longer will the plain of fertile Rome be victorious, when from Asia the one who rules comes with Ares. And having done all these things he will come to the city, founded. Three times three hundred and forty and eight years you will fulfil, when there comes upon you an ill-fated ### Translation notes - Two lines of the OCR consist only of misread accent marks and are left out. 948 is the numerical value of the Greek letters of the name Ῥώμη ("Rome"), as 8.141 explains ("having fulfilled your name"). ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.131 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-131). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.141ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-141 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The doom of Rome comes when the number of its name is fulfilled. ### Greek text μοῖρα βιαξομένη τεὸν οὔνομα πληρώσασα. ### English translation (Claude) fate, overpowering you, having fulfilled your name. ### Translation notes - This line completes the sentence of 8.131. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.141 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-141). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.151ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-151 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl laments Rome's coming day and foretells the return of the emperor who cut through the Isthmus, and his end in Hades. ### Greek text οἴμοι ἐγὼ τριτάλαινα, πότ᾽ ὄψομαι ἦμαρ ἐκεῖνο Ἐσεῖό ποτε, Ῥώμη, πᾶσιν δὲ μάλιστα Λατίνοις; κώμαϊζ᾽, εἰ βούλει σύ, τὸν ἐν χρυφίαισι λοχείαις ᾿Ασίδος ἐκ γαίης ἐπὶ Τρωικὸν ἀρμ᾽ ἐπιβάντα, x ” > Ὑ o x , ϑυμὸν ἔχοντ᾽ αἴϑωνος. ὅταν δ᾽ Ισϑμὸν διακόψῃ παπταίνων, ἐπὶ πάντας ἰών, πέλαγος διαμείψας, καὶ τότε ϑῆρα μέγαν μετελεύσεται αἷμα κελαινόν. τὸν δὲ λέοντ᾽ ἐδίωξε κύων ὀλέχοντα νομῆας. σκῆπτρα δ᾽ ἀφαιρήσουσι καὶ εἰς Aldao περήσει. . ἥξει καὶ Ῥοδίοις κακὸν ὕστατον, ἀλλὰ μέγιστον, ### English translation (Claude) Ah me, thrice-wretched, when shall I see that day … of you, Rome, and above all of all the Latins? Revel, if you will, with him who, from secret births in the land of Asia, mounted the Trojan chariot, having the spirit of a blazing one. But when he cuts through the Isthmus, peering about, going against all, having crossed the sea, then dark blood will pursue the great beast. And the dog pursued the lion that destroys shepherds. And they will take away his sceptres, and he will pass into Hades. There will come to the Rhodians too a last evil, but the greatest, ### Translation notes - The emperor who "cuts through the Isthmus" is Nero (who began a canal at Corinth); translated as written. One word in the second line is garbled and marked "…". ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.151 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-151). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.161ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-161 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the ruin of Thebes, Egypt, Rome, Delos, Samos, and Persia, and the everlasting reign of the holy King who raises the dead. ### Greek text καὶ Θήβῃσι κακή γε μένει μετόπισϑεν ἅλωσις. Αἴγυπτος δ᾽ ἀπολεῖται ὑφ᾽ ἡγεμόνων κακότητος. [ὡς δὲ καὶ οἱ μετόπισϑ᾽ ἔφυγον βροτοὶ αἰπὸν 028900», τρὶς μακαριστὸς ἔην καὶ τετράκις ὄλβιος ἀνήρ. 16 ἔσται καὶ Ῥώμη ῥύμη καὶ Δῆλος ἄδηλος καὶ “Σάμοε ἄμμος m ee ὕστερον * αὖ καὶ ἔπειτά γε τοὺς Πέρσας καχὸν ἥξει ἀνϑ᾽ ὑπερηφανίης, ἀπολεῖται ὕβρις ἅπασα. καὶ τότε (ὃ) ἁγνὸς ἄναξ πάσης γῆς σκῆπτρα κρατήσει εἰς αἰῶνας ἅπαντας (0) τοὺς φϑιμένους ἀνεγείρας. ### English translation (Claude) and for Thebes too an evil capture awaits hereafter. And Egypt will perish through the wickedness of its rulers. Rome will be a lane, and Delos invisible, and Samos sand … . And afterwards evil will come upon the Persians in return for their arrogance; all insolence will perish. And then the holy King will hold the sceptres of all the earth for all ages, having raised the dead. ### Scripture references - Dan 7:14: echo, medium confidence - Rev 11:15: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Two lines that the editor sets in square brackets ("And as the mortals afterwards fled … thrice blessed was he and four times happy the man") are treated as deleted and not translated. "Rome a lane, Delos invisible, Samos sand" renders the Greek puns Ῥώμη ῥύμη, Δῆλος ἄδηλος, Σάμος ἄμμος; the rest of that line is lost in the OCR. A margin numeral is left out. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.161 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-161). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.171ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-171 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells famine, plague, and tumult at Rome and portents in nature in the last days. ### Greek text τρεῖς Ῥώμῃ Ὕψιστος ἄγοι οἰκτρῇ τότε μοίρῃ, πάντες δ᾽ ἄνϑρωποι μελάϑροις ἰδίοισιν ὀλοῦνται" ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὴ πεισϑῶσιν, ὃ κεν πολὺ λώιον εἴη. ἀλλ ὁπόταν δὴ πᾶσιν ἐπαυξήσῃ κακὸν ἦμαρ λιμοῦ καὶ λοιμοῦ δυσανασχέτου ἠδὲ κυδοιμοῦ, καὶ τότ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ αὗτις κρείων ἔμπροσϑεν ὃ τλήμων συγκαλέσας βουλὴν βουλεύσεται, ds ἀπολέσσει ξηρὰ μὲν ἀνϑήσουσιν ὁμοῦ φύλλοισι φανέντα" οὐράνιον δ᾽ ἔδαφος Ἐδείξει ἢ στερεᾷ ἐπὶ πέτρῃ ὄμβρον τε φλογμόν Te πολύπνοιάν τ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ### English translation (Claude) Three … the Most High would bring upon Rome then, with piteous fate, and all men will perish in their own houses; but they will not be persuaded, which would be far better. But when the evil day increases for all, of famine and of unbearable plague and of tumult, then afterwards again the former wretched ruler, having called a council, will take counsel how he may destroy … . Dry things will blossom, appearing together with leaves; and the floor of heaven … upon the solid rock rain and burning heat and great winds upon the earth ### Translation notes - Several lines of this section are garbled in the OCR; gaps are marked "…" and the rest is translated by sense. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.171 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-171). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.181ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-181 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl describes the shameless and greedy men of the last days and the falling of the stars. ### Greek text καὶ σπορίμων πληϑὺν ἰῶν κατὰ γαῖαν ἅπασαν. ἀλλὰ πάλιν πράξουσιν ἀναιδέα ϑυμὸν ἔχοντες, οὐ μήνιμα ϑεοῦ δειδιότες οὐδ᾽ ἀνϑρώπων, αἰδοίην προλιπόντες, ἀναιδείην ποϑέοντες, ἀστασίῃσι τύραννοι ἁμαρτωλοί τε βίαιοι ψεῦσται ἀπιστόφιλοι κακοπράγμονες οὐδὲν ἀληϑεῖς πιστολέται εὑρεσσίλογοι δύσφημα χέοντες" οὐδέ σφιν πλούτου κόρος ἔσσεται ἀλλὰ τ ἀναιδῶς πλείονα συλλέξουσι" τυραννωϑέντες ὀλοῦνται. ἄστρα “πεσεῖται ἅπαντα ϑαλάσσης ἀντίπρφρα, ### English translation (Claude) and a multitude of blights on the crops over the whole earth. But again they will act, having a shameless spirit, fearing neither the wrath of God nor that of men, having abandoned modesty, longing for shamelessness: tyrants in seditions, sinners and violent men, liars, lovers of faithlessness, evildoers, in nothing true, destroyers of faith, inventors of words, pouring out blasphemies; nor will they have their fill of wealth, but shamelessly will gather more; tyrannized, they will perish. All the stars will fall, facing the sea, ### Scripture references - 2 Tim 3:2: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 24:29: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Echoes: 2 Tim 3:1–5; Matt 24:29. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.181 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-181). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.191ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-191 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells a comet as a sign of war, and wishes to live not under "the polluted woman" but when heavenly grace reigns and the holy child overcomes evil. ### Greek text πολλὰ μὲν ἑξῆς ἀστραῦ, καὶ ἀκτινόεντα κομήτην ἄνϑρωποι καλέουσι τὸν ἀστέρα, σῆμα πόνοιο πολλοῦ ἐπερχομένου, πολέμου καὶ δηιοτῆτος. μή ποτ᾽ ἐγὼ ζῴην, ὅτε ἡ μιαρὰ βασιλεύσει, τ ἀλλὰ τότ᾽, οὐρανίη ὅταν ἡ χάρις ἐμβασιλεύσῃ, καὶ ὁπόταν ἱερός ποτὲ παῖς ᾿δολοφῶν" ἁπάντων ἐξολέσῃ δεσμοῖς ὀλοόφρονα βυσσὸν ἀνοίγων, αἰφνίδιος δὲ βροτοὺς ξύλινος δόμος ἀμφικαλύψῃ. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἡ δεκάτη γενεὴ δόμον Ἄιδος εἴσω, ϑηλυτέρης μετέπειτα «μέγα κράτος" ἢ καχὰ πολλά ### English translation (Claude) many in succession; and men call the star the radiant comet, a sign of much toil coming upon them, of war and slaughter. May I not be alive when the polluted woman reigns, but then, when the heavenly grace reigns, and when one day the holy child destroys … of all, opening the deadly abyss with bonds, and a wooden house suddenly covers mortals. But when the tenth generation goes within the house of Hades, afterwards the great power of a woman; … many evils ### Scripture references - Rev 20:1: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - Several words are garbled in the OCR; "the polluted woman" and "the holy child" are obscure figures, and the line about the holy child is translated by sense (one word marked "…"). ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.191 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-191). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.201ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-201 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the cosmic signs of the end, the resurrection of the dead, the healing of the lame, deaf, and blind, and a common life on an undivided earth. ### Greek text αὐξήσει ϑεὸς αὐτός, ὅταν βασιληίδα τιμήν στεψαμένη τετύχῃ" σύμπαν δ᾽ ἔτος ᾿ἥπιος" αἰών. ἠέλιος [μὲν] αὐχμηρὰ τρέχων νυχτερινὰ φαίνει, λείψει δ᾽ ἄστρα πόλον" πολλῇ δέ τε λαίλαπι ϑύων οοῦ γαῖαν ἐρημώσει" νεχρῶν δ᾽ ἐπανάστασις ἔσται" καὶ χωλῶν δρόμος ὠκύτατος καὶ κωφὸς ἀκούσει καὶ τυφλοὶ βλέψουσι, λαλήσουσ᾽ οὐ λαλέοντες, καὶ κοινὸς πάντεσσι βίος καὶ πλοῦτος ἐσεῖται. γαῖα δ᾽ ἴση πάντων οὐ τείχεσιν οὐ περιφραγμοῖς διαμεριζομένη καρπούς ποτε πλείονας οἴσει, ### English translation (Claude) God himself will increase, when she, crowned, has obtained the royal honour; and the whole year a gentle age. The sun, running a parched course, will shine by night, and the stars will leave the sky; and raging with a great whirlwind he will make the earth desolate; and there will be a resurrection of the dead; and the lame will run most swiftly, and the deaf will hear, and the blind will see, and those who do not speak will speak, and life and wealth will be common to all. And the earth, equal for all, not divided by walls or fences, will then bear more fruits, ### Scripture references - Isa 35:6: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 11:5: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The first two lines are partly garbled in the OCR; "shine by night" is uncertain. The editor's square brackets around one small word (μέν) are treated as a deletion. Echoes: Isa 35:5–6; Matt 11:5; Acts 2:44. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.201 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-201). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.211ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-211 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the earth's abundance in the age to come and begins the acrostic oracle of the judgment: the earth will sweat, and the King will come from heaven to judge all flesh. ### Greek text πηγὰς δὲ γλυχεροῦ οἴνου λευκοῦ τε γάλακτος καὶ μέλιτος δώσει .......{{Ὸ᾿ καὶ *xoloıw* ἀϑανάτοιο BEOÖ......... ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἀλλάξῃ ϑεὸς καιροὺς ......... χεῖμα ϑέρος ποιῶν, τότε ϑέσφατα {πάντα τελεῖται). ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε κόσμος ὁλωλεν..... ER. Ἱδρώσει δὲ χϑών, κρίσεως σημεῖον ὅτ᾽ ἔσται. Ἥξει δ᾽ οὐρανόϑεν βασιλεὺς αἰῶσιν ὁ μέλλων, Σάρχα παρὼν πᾶσαν κρῖναι καὶ κόσμον ἅπαντα. Ὄψονται δὲ ϑεὸν μέροπες πιστοὶ καὶ ἄπιστοι ### English translation (Claude) and will give springs of sweet wine and of white milk and of honey … and … of the immortal God … . But when God changes the seasons …, making winter summer, then all the oracles will be fulfilled. But when the world has perished … . The earth will sweat, when the sign of judgment comes. And from heaven will come the King who is to be for ages, present to judge all flesh and the whole world. And mortals, faithful and faithless, will see God, ### Scripture references - Joel 3:18 (4:18 LXX): echo, medium confidence - Matt 24:30: allusion, medium confidence - Rev 1:7: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Several lines are broken off in the edition and the OCR (marked "…"). From "The earth will sweat" begins the famous acrostic (8.217–250), whose initial letters spell ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΕΙΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡ ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ("Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, Cross"); it was quoted by Constantine (Oration to the Saints 18) and in Latin by Augustine (City of God 18.23). - Echoes: Joel 3:18; Matt 24:30; 2 Tim 4:1; Rev 1:7. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.211 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-211). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.231ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-231 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The acrostic continues: Christ judges all souls, fire consumes the world and breaks open Hades, the saints rise, and every secret deed is told. ### Greek text Yıpıorov μετὰ τῶν ἁγίων ἐπὶ τέρμα χρόνοιο. Σαρκοφόρων δ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ψυχὰς ἐπὶ βήματι κρίνει, Χέρσος ὅταν ποτὲ κόσμος ὅλος καὶ ἄκανϑα γένηται. - Ῥίψουσιν δ᾽ εἴδωλα βροτοὶ καὶ πλοῦτον ἅπαντα. Ἐχκαύσει δὲ τὸ πῦρ γῆν οὐρανὸν ἠδὲ ϑάλασσαν ᾿Ἰχνεῦον, ῥήξει τε πύλας εἱρκτῆς ᾿Αίδαο. Σὰρξ τότε πᾶσα νεχρῶν ἐς ἐλευϑέριον φάος ἥξει Τῶν ἁγίων" ἀνόμους δὲ τὸ πῦρ αἰῶσιν ἐλέγξει. Ὁππόσα τις πράξας ἔλαϑεν, τότε πάντα λαλήσει" ### English translation (Claude) the Most High, with the saints at the end of time. And he will judge at his tribunal the souls of flesh-bearing men, when at last the whole world becomes waste land and thorns. And mortals will cast away their idols and all their wealth. And the fire will burn up earth, heaven, and sea, tracking them down, and will break the gates of the prison of Hades. Then all the flesh of the dead will come into the free light, the flesh of the saints; but the lawless the fire will convict for ages. Whatever deeds anyone did in secret, he will then tell them all; ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:10: allusion, medium confidence - 2 Pet 3:10: allusion, medium confidence - Luke 12:2: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 16:18: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - Lines of the editor's apparatus at the head of this section in the OCR are removed by logged corrections. Echoes: 2 Cor 5:10; 2 Pet 3:10; Matt 16:18; Luke 12:2–3. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.231 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-231). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.241ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-241 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The acrostic concludes with the darkening of sun, moon, and stars, the river of fire, the sign of the cross for the faithful, and the declaration that this is our God, the Savior and immortal King who suffered for us. ### Greek text Στιήϑεα γὰρ ζοφόεντα ϑεὸς φωστῆρσιν ἀνοίξει. Θρῆνος δ᾽ ἐκ πάντων ἔσται καὶ βρυγμὸς ὀδόντων. ξύλον ἐν πιστοῖς, τὸ κέρας τὸ nodovuevor ἔσται, Ἐχλείψει σέλας ἠελίου ἄστρων τε χορεῖαι. ᾿νδρῶν εὐσεβέων ζωή, πρόσχομμα δὲ κόσμου, Οὐρανὸν εἱλίξει" μήνης δέ τε φέγγος ὀλεῖται. Ὕδασι φωτίζον κλητοὺς ἐν δώδεκα πηγαῖς" Ὑψώσει δὲ φάραγγας, ὀλεῖ δ᾽ ὑψώματα βουνῶν, Ῥάβδος ποιμαίνουσα σιδηρείη 7ε κρατήσει. Ῥεύσει δ᾽ οὐρανόϑεν ποταμὸς πυρὸς ἠδὲ ϑεείου. Οὗτος ὁ νῦν προγραφεὶς ἐν «ἀκροστιχίοις ϑεὸς ἡμῶν Σῆμα δέ τοι τότε πᾶσι βροτοῖς, σφρηγὶς ἐπίσημος Σωτὴρ ἀϑάνατος βασιλεύς, ὃ παϑὼν ἕνεχ ἡμῶν. ### English translation (Claude) For God will open dark hearts to the lights. And there will be lamentation from all, and gnashing of teeth. The brightness of the sun will fail, and the dances of the stars. He will roll up the heaven; and the light of the moon will perish. He will raise up the ravines, and destroy the heights of the hills. … And a river of fire and of sulphur will flow from heaven. And then there will be a sign for all mortals, a distinguished seal: the wood among the faithful, the horn that is longed for, the life of pious men, but a stumbling block to the world, enlightening the called with water in twelve springs; an iron rod that shepherds will prevail. This is our God, now set forth in the acrostic, the Savior, the immortal King, who suffered for our sake. ### Scripture references - Matt 8:12: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 24:29: allusion, high confidence - Isa 34:4: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 40:4: allusion, medium confidence - Dan 7:10: echo, medium confidence - Rev 7:3: echo, low confidence - 1 Cor 1:23: allusion, medium confidence - Ps 2:9: allusion, medium confidence - Rev 2:27: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The OCR interleaves the lines of this part of the acrostic out of order, with the Latin of Augustine's version from the apparatus (removed by logged corrections); the lines are translated here in the order of the acrostic. About eight lines of the acrostic (between "He will raise up the ravines" and "a river of fire") are missing from the OCR; their place is marked "…". - Echoes: Matt 8:12; Matt 24:29; Isa 34:4 and Rev 6:14; Isa 40:4; Dan 7:10; Ezek 9:4 and Rev 7:3 (seal); 1 Cor 1:23 (stumbling block); Rev 2:27 and Ps 2:9 (iron rod). ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.241 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-241). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.251ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-251 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl says that Moses with outstretched arms prefigured Christ, the rod of David and the chosen stone, who came in lowliness to renew the man God formed. ### Greek text ὃν Μωσῆς ἐτύπωσε προτείνας ὠλένας ayvas νικῶν τὸν ᾿“μαλὴκ πίστει, ἵνα λαὸς ἐπιγνῷ ἐκλεχτὸν παρὰ πατρὶ ϑεῷ καὶ τίμιον εἶναι τὴν ῥάβδον Δαυὶδ καὶ τὸν λίϑον, ὅνπερ ὑπέστη, εἰς ὃν ὃ πιστεύσας ζωὴν αἰώνιον ἕξει. οὐδὲ ‚rag ἐν δόξῃ, ἀλλ᾿ ὡς βροτὸς εἰς κτίσιν ἥξει οἰκτρὸς ἄτιμος ἄμορφος, ἵν᾽ οἰκτροῖς ἐλπίδα δώσει" καὶ φϑαρτῇ σαρκὶ μορφὴν καὶ πίστιν ἀπίστοις οὐράνιον δώσει καὶ μορφώσει τὸν ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς ἄνϑρωπον πλασϑέντα ϑεοῦ παλάμαις ἁγίαισιν, ### English translation (Claude) whom Moses prefigured, stretching out his holy arms, conquering Amalek by faith, so that the people might know that chosen and precious with God the Father is the rod of David and the stone that he promised, in whom whoever believes will have eternal life. For he will come into creation not in glory, but as a mortal, pitiable, without honour, without form, so that he may give hope to the pitiable; and he will give form to corruptible flesh and heavenly faith to the faithless, and will form anew the man fashioned from the beginning by the holy hands of God, ### Scripture references - Exod 17:11: allusion, high confidence - Isa 11:1: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 28:16: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Pet 2:6: allusion, medium confidence - John 3:16: allusion, high confidence - Isa 53:2: allusion, high confidence - Gen 2:7: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Echoes: Exod 17:11–12; Isa 11:1; Isa 28:16 and 1 Pet 2:6; John 3:16; Isa 53:2–3; Gen 2:7. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.251 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-251). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.261ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-261 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl tells how the serpent deceived Adam, and how the Almighty, taking the Son as counsellor, said "Let us make" man, and how the Son came, mindful of that purpose, through a holy virgin. ### Greek text ὃν τ᾽ ἐπλάνησεν ὄφις δολίως ἐπὶ μοῖραν ἀπελϑεῖν τοῦ ϑανάτου γνῶσίν τε λαβεῖν ἀγαϑοῦ τε κακοῦ τε, ὥστε ϑεὸν προλιπόντα λατρεύειν ἤϑεσι ϑνητοῖς. αὐτὸν γὰρ πρώτιστα λαβὼν σύμβουλον ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς εἶπεν ὁ παντοκράτωρ' “ποιήσωμεν, τέκνον, ἄμφω εἰκόνος ἡμετέρης ἀπομαξάμενοι βροτὰ φῦλα" νῦν μὲν ἐγὼ χερσίν, σὺ δ᾽ ἔ ἔπειτα λόγῳ ϑεραπεύσεις μορφὴν ἡμετέρην, ἵνα κοινὸν ἀνάστεμα δῶμεν» γνώμης οὖν ταύτης μεμνημένος ἐς κτίσιν ἥξει ἀντίτυπον μίμημα φέρων εἰς παρϑένον ἁγνήν, ### English translation (Claude) whom the serpent deceitfully led astray to go to the lot of death and to take knowledge of good and evil, so that, forsaking God, he served mortal ways. For having taken him first of all as counsellor from the beginning, the Almighty said: "Child, let us both make mortal races, copying them from our image; now I with my hands, and you afterwards with the word, will tend our form, so that we may give a common raising-up." Mindful, then, of this purpose, he will come into creation, bearing a corresponding likeness into a holy virgin, ### Scripture references - Gen 3:5: allusion, high confidence - Gen 1:26: allusion, high confidence - Luke 1:27: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The reading of Gen 1:26 as the Father's word to the Son is the oracle's; translated as written. Echoes: Gen 3:1–7; Gen 1:26; Luke 1:27. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.261 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-261). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.271ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-271 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells Christ's baptism, his healing, his calming of the sea, and the feeding of the five thousand. ### Greek text ὕδατι φωτίζων διὰ πρεσβυτέρων ἅμα χειρῶν, πάντα λόγῳ πράσσων, πᾶσαν δὲ νόσον ϑεραπεύων. τοὺς ἀνέμους παύσειε λόγῳ, στορέσει δὲ ϑάλασσαν μαινομένην ποσὶν εἰρήνης πίστει τε πατήσας. 3 ἐκχ δ᾽ ἄρτων ἅμα πέντε καὶ ἰχϑύος εἰναλίοιο ἀνδρῶν χιλιάδας ἐν ἐρήμῳ πέντε κορέσσει, καὶ τὰ περισσεύοντα λαβὼν τότε κλάσματα πάντα δώδεκα πληρώσει κοφίνους εἰς ἐλπίδα λαῶν. καὶ καλέσει ψυχὰς μακάρων, οἰκτροὺς δ᾽ ἀγαπήσει, οἱ χαλὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ χλευαζόμενοι πρήξουσιν ### English translation (Claude) enlightening with water through the hands of elders together, doing all things by a word, and healing every disease. He would stop the winds by a word, and calm the raging sea, treading it with feet of peace and with faith. And from five loaves together and a fish of the sea he will satisfy five thousand men in the wilderness, and then, taking all the fragments left over, he will fill twelve baskets for the hope of the peoples. And he will call the souls of the blessed, and love the pitiable, who, mocked, will do good in return for evil, ### Scripture references - Matt 4:23: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 8:26: allusion, high confidence - Matt 14:25: allusion, high confidence - Matt 14:20: allusion, high confidence - Matt 14:21: allusion, high confidence - Matt 5:44: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "Through the hands of elders" is obscure (perhaps of John the Baptist, or of the church's baptism). A margin numeral is left out. Echoes: Matt 4:23; Matt 8:26; Matt 14:25; Matt 14:17–21; Matt 5:44. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.271 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-271). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.281ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-281 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl describes Christ as the all-seeing Word, creator and healer, who will be handed over to the lawless, struck, spat upon, and scourged. ### Greek text τυπτόμενοι μαστιζόμενοι πενίην ποϑέοντες. πάντα νοῶν καὶ πάντα βλέπων καὶ πάντ᾽ ἐπακούων σπλάγχνα κατοπτεύσει καὶ γυμνώσει πρὸς ἔλεγχον" αὐτὸς γὰρ πάντων ἀχοὴ καὶ νοῦς καὶ ὅρασις καὶ λόγος ὃ κτίζων μορφᾶς, ᾧ πάνϑ' ὑπακούει, καὶ νέχυας σῴζων, πᾶσαν δὲ νόσον ϑεραπεύων. εἰς ἀνόμων χεῖρας καὶ ἀπίστων ὕστερον ἥξει, δώσουσιν δὲ ϑεῷ ῥαπίσματα χερσὶν ἀνάγνοις καὶ στόμασιν μιαροῖς ἐμπτύσματα φαρμαχόεντα. δώσει δ᾽ εἰς μάστιγας ἀναπλώσας τότε νῶτον" ### English translation (Claude) beaten, scourged, longing for poverty. Perceiving all, seeing all, and hearing all, he will look into the inward parts and lay them bare for conviction; for he himself is the hearing and mind and sight of all, and the Word who creates forms, whom all things obey, saving the dead and healing every disease. Later he will come into the hands of the lawless and faithless, and they will give God blows with unholy hands and poisonous spittings with polluted mouths. And he will then spread out and give his back to the scourges; ### Scripture references - Heb 4:13: allusion, medium confidence - John 1:3: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 26:67: allusion, high confidence - Isa 50:6: allusion, high confidence - Matt 27:26: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Echoes: Heb 4:12–13; John 1:3; Matt 26:67; Isa 50:6; Matt 27:26. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.281 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-281). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.291ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-291 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells Christ's silence under blows, his crown of thorns, the piercing of his side, and the fulfilment of the law in him. ### Greek text [αὐτὸς γὰρ κόσμῳ παραδώσει, παρϑένον ἁγνήν. καὶ κολαφιζόμενος σιγήσει, μή τις ἐπιγνῷ, τίς τίνος ὧν πόϑεν ἤλϑεν, ἵνα φϑιμένοισι λαλήσει. καὶ στέφανον φορέσει τὸν axavdıvov' ἐκ γὰρ ἀχανϑῶν τὸ στέφος ἐχλεχτῶν αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἄγαλμα. πλευρὰς νύξουσιν καλάμῳ διὰ τὸν νόμον αὐτῶν" ἐκ καλάμων γὰρ σειομένων ὑπὸ πνεύματος *aALov* πρὸς χρίματα ἔψυχῆς" ἐτράφη ὀργῆς καὶ ἀμοιβῆς. ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε ταῦτά γε πάντα τελειωϑῇ ἅπερ εἶπον. 80) εἰς αὐτὸν τότε πᾶς λύεται νόμος, ὅστις ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς ### English translation (Claude) And, struck with fists, he will keep silent, so that no one may know who he is, whose son, and whence he came, so that he may speak to the dead. And he will wear the crown of thorns; for of thorns the crown of the elect is an eternal glory. They will pierce his sides with a reed because of their law; for from reeds shaken by the wind of another … … was nourished, of wrath and of requital. But when all these things that I have spoken are fulfilled, then every law is dissolved in him, which from the beginning ### Scripture references - Isa 53:7: allusion, high confidence - Matt 27:29: allusion, high confidence - John 19:34: allusion, high confidence - Matt 11:7: echo, low confidence - 1 Pet 3:19: echo, medium confidence - Matt 5:17: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The first line of the section, which the editor sets in square brackets ("For he himself will give over to the world a holy virgin"), is treated as deleted and not translated. Two lines are corrupt in the edition and the OCR (marked "…"). A margin numeral is left out. - Echoes: Matt 26:67; Isa 53:7; 1 Pet 3:19; Matt 27:29; John 19:34; Matt 11:7; Matt 5:17–18. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.291 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-291). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.301ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-301 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the crucifixion: Christ's outstretched hands, the gall and vinegar, the torn veil, and the three hours of darkness. ### Greek text δόγμασιν ἀνϑρώποις ἐδόϑη διὰ λαὸν ἀπειϑῆ. ἐχπετάσει χεῖρας καὶ κόσμον ἅπαντα μετρήσει. εἰς δὲ τὸ βρῶμα χολὴν καὶ πιεῖν ὄξος ἔδωκαν" τῆς ἀφιλοξενίης ταύτην δείξουσι τράπεζαν. 8ι᾽. γγαοῦ δὲ σχισϑῇ τὸ πέτασμα καὶ ἤματι μέσσῳ νὺξ ἔσται σχοτόεσσα πελώριος ἐν τρισὶν ὥραις. οὐχέτι γὰρ χρυφίῳ τε νόμῳ ναῷ τε λατρεύειν φαντασίαις κόσμου κεκαλυμμένον αὖτις ἐδείχϑη ### English translation (Claude) was given to men in decrees because of a disobedient people. He will stretch out his hands and measure the whole world. And for food they gave gall, and vinegar to drink; this is the table of inhospitality that they will show. And the veil of the temple will be split, and at midday there will be dark and monstrous night for three hours. For no longer is it right to worship with a secret law and temple, that which, hidden by the phantoms of the world, was shown again ### Scripture references - Isa 65:2: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 27:34: allusion, high confidence - Ps 69:21 (68:22 LXX): allusion, high confidence - Matt 27:51: allusion, high confidence - Matt 27:45: allusion, high confidence - Eph 2:15: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Two lines of the editor's apparatus (citing the Gospel of Peter and the Acts of John) run into this section in the OCR and are removed by a logged correction. Echoes: Isa 65:2; Matt 27:34, 48; Ps 69:21 (68:22 LXX); Matt 27:45, 51; Eph 2:15; Col 2:14. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.301 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-301). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.311ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-311 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells Christ's descent to Hades with hope for the saints, his rising on the third day as the first-fruits of resurrection, and his appearing in the flesh with the marks of the nails. ### Greek text αὐϑέντου καταβάντος ἐπὶ χϑονὸς ἀέναοιο. :-. ἥξει δ᾽ εἰς ᾿Αίδην ἀγγέλλων ἐλπίδα πᾶσιν τοῖς ἁγίοις, τέλος αἰώνων καὶ ἔσχατον ἦμαρ, καὶ ϑανάτου μοῖραν τελέσει τρίτον ἤμαρ ὑπνώσας" καὶ τότ᾽ ἀπὸ φϑιμένων ἀναλύσας εἰς φάος ἥξει ἀϑανάτου πηγῆς ἀπολουσάμενος ὑδάτεσσιν πρῶτος ἀναστάσεως κλητοῖς ἀρχὴν ὑποδείξας, τὰς πρότερον κακίας, ἵνα γεννηϑέντες ἄνωϑεν μηκέτι δουλεύσωσιν ἀϑέσμοις ἤϑεσι κόσμου. πρῶτα δὲ τοῖς ἰδίοις φανερῶς τότε κύριος ὀφϑῇ σάρχινος, ὡς πάρος ἦν, χερσίν τε ποσίν τ᾽ ἐπιδείξει τέσσαρα τοῖς ἰδίοις ἴχνη πηχϑέντα μέλεσσιν, ### English translation (Claude) when the Master came down upon the everlasting earth. And he will come to Hades, announcing hope to all the saints, the end of the ages and the last day, and he will fulfil the lot of death, having slept until the third day; and then, released from the dead, he will come to the light, having washed himself in the waters of the immortal spring, the first to show the called the beginning of resurrection, [washing away] their former evils, so that, born from above, they may no longer serve the lawless ways of the world. And then first the Lord will be seen openly by his own, in the flesh as he was before, and he will show in his hands and feet to his own the four marks fixed in his limbs, ### Scripture references - 1 Pet 3:19: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Cor 15:4: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 15:20: allusion, medium confidence - John 3:3: allusion, medium confidence - Luke 24:39: allusion, high confidence - John 20:27: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Washing away" is supplied by sense for a construction that lacks its verb. Echoes: 1 Pet 3:19; 1 Cor 15:4, 20; John 3:3; Luke 24:39; John 20:20, 27. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.311 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-311). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.321ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-321 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The four marks of the nails signify the four quarters of the world; the Sibyl bids the daughter of Zion rejoice at her gentle King, the Son of God, who comes on a colt to lift her yoke. ### Greek text ἀντολίην TE δύσιν τὲ μεσημβρίην τε καὶ ἄρχτον᾽ τόσσαι γὰρ κόσμου βασιληίδες ἐχτελέσουσι» πρᾶξιν τὴν ἀϑέμιστον ἐπίψογον εἰς τύπον ἡμῶν. χαῖρ᾽, ἁγνὴ ϑύγατερ Σιών, TI πολλὰ παϑοῦσα᾽᾿ αὐτός σου βασιλεὺς ἐπιβὰς ἐπὶ πῶλον ἐσάγει ἔπρᾶος πᾶσι φανείς, ἵνα Too) ζυγὸν ἡμῶν" δοῦλον δυσβάστακτον ἐπ᾿ αὐχένι κείμενον ἄρῃ καὶ ϑεσμοὺς ἀϑέους λύσῃ δεσμούς τε βιαίους. αὐτόν σου γίνωσκε ϑεὸν ϑεοῦ υἱὸν ἐόντα" τοῦτον δοξάζουσα καὶ ἐν στέρνοισιν ἔχουσα ### English translation (Claude) east and west and south and north; for so many royal powers of the world will accomplish the lawless and blameworthy deed, as a type for us. Rejoice, holy daughter of Zion, who have suffered much; your King himself, mounted on a colt, comes in, appearing gentle to all, so that he may lift our yoke, slavish and hard to bear, that lies upon our neck, and undo godless ordinances and violent bonds. Know him as your God, being the Son of God; glorify him and hold him in your breast, ### Scripture references - Zech 9:9: quotation, high confidence - Matt 21:5: allusion, high confidence - Matt 11:30: echo, medium confidence - Acts 15:10: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Echoes: Zech 9:9; Matt 21:5; Matt 11:29–30; Acts 15:10; Gal 5:1. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.321 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-321). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.331ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-331 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl bids Zion love Christ, be washed in his blood, and praise him with understanding, and foretells the dissolution of all the elements. ### Greek text &x ψυχῆς ἀγάπα καὶ τοὔνομα βάστασον αὐτοῦ. τοὺς “προτέρους δ᾽ ἀπόϑου καὶ λοῦσον ἀφ᾽ αἵματος αὐτοῦ" οὐ γὰρ σαῖς οἴμαις ἱλάσκεται οὐδὲ λιταῖσιν, οὐ ϑυσίαις προσέχει φϑαρταῖς ἄφϑαρτος ὑπάρχων" HAAN ὕμνον στομάτων συνετῶν τότε ᾿ἐκπροφέροντες ἢ γνῶϑιε, τίς ἔσϑ᾽ οὗτος, καὶ τὸν γενετῆρα τότ᾽ ὄψει. τὸ: * χηρεύσει τότε πάντα χρόνῳ στοιχεῖα τὰ κόσμου, ἀὴρ γαῖα ϑάλασσα φάος πυρὸς αἰϑομένοιο" καὶ πόλος οὐράνιος καὶ νὺξ καὶ ἤματα πάντα ### English translation (Claude) love him from your soul, and bear his name. Put away your former things, and wash yourself with his blood; for he is not appeased by your songs or by your prayers, nor does he heed corruptible sacrifices, since he is incorruptible; but, bringing forth then the hymn of understanding mouths, know who this is, and then you will see the Begetter. … Then all the elements of the world will be bereaved in time, air, earth, sea, the light of blazing fire, and the vault of heaven, and night, and all the days ### Scripture references - Rev 7:14: echo, medium confidence - Ps 51:16 (50:18 LXX): echo, medium confidence - 2 Pet 3:10: allusion, medium confidence - John 14:9: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - A line of OCR debris is marked "…". Echoes: Rev 7:14; Ps 51:16–17; 2 Pet 3:10–12; John 14:9. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.331 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-331). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.341ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-341 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl describes the end of the world: the stars fall, all living creatures perish, the sea roars, and men gnash their teeth. ### Greek text εἰς ἕν συρρήξουσι͵ καὶ εἰς μορφὴν πανέρημον. ἄστρα γὰρ οὐρανόϑεν φωστήρων πάντα πεσεῖται. κοὐχέτι δὴ πτήσονται ἐπ᾽ ἀέρος εὔπτεροι ὄρνεις οὐδὲ βάσις γαίης" ϑῆρες γὰρ ἅπαντες ὀλοῦνται. κοὐκ ἀνδρῶν φωναί, οὐ ϑηρῶν, οὐ πετεηνῶν. κόσμος ἄτακτος ἐὼν οὐ χρήσιμον ἦχον ἀκούσει" ἠχήσει δὲ βαϑὺς πόντος μέγαν ἦχον ἀπειλῆς ζῷά τε νηχτὰ τρέμοντα ϑαλάσσης πᾶντα ϑανεῖται" καὶ ναῦς φόρτον ἔχουσ᾽ ἐπὶ κύμασιν οὐχέτι πλεύσει. μυχήσει δὲ χϑὼν αἱμασσομένη πολέμοισιν" πᾶσαι δ᾽ ἀνϑρώπων ψυχαὶ βρύξουσιν ὀδοῦσιν ### English translation (Claude) will crash together into one, into a form wholly desolate. For all the stars of the luminaries will fall from heaven. And no longer will well-winged birds fly in the air, nor will there be any treading of the earth; for all beasts will perish. No voices of men, nor of beasts, nor of birds. The world, being without order, will hear no useful sound; but the deep sea will echo a great sound of threat, and all the swimming creatures of the sea, trembling, will die; and no ship with cargo will sail on the waves any longer. And the earth, bloodied by wars, will bellow; and all the souls of men will gnash their teeth ### Scripture references - Matt 24:29: allusion, medium confidence - Zeph 1:3: echo, medium confidence - Matt 13:42: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Echoes: Matt 24:29; Zeph 1:3; Matt 13:42. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.341 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-341). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.351ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-351 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl foretells the torment of the wicked, who will long for death in vain, though God gave time for repentance, and affirms that God revealed all this to her. ### Greek text [τῶν ἀνόμων “ψυχῶν ὀλολυγμοῖσίν τε φόβῳ τε, τηκόμεναι δίψει λιμῷ λοιμῷ τε φόνοις τε καὶ καλέσουσι καλὸν τὸ ϑανεῖν καὶ φεύξετ᾽ ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν" οὐχέτι γὰρ ϑάνατος κείνους, οὐ νὺξ ἀναπαύσει" πολλὰ δ' ἐρωτήσουσι μάτην. ϑεὸν ὑψιμέδοντα, καὶ τότ᾽ ἀποστρέψει φανερῶς. τὸ πρόσωπον ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν. ἑπτὰ γὰρ αἰώνων μετανοίας ἤματ᾽ ἔδωκεν ἀνδράσι πλαζομένοις διὰ χειρῶν παρϑένου ἁγνῆς. αὐτός μοι τάδε πάντα ϑεὸς vom ἐγκατέδειξεν 8.0 καὶ de ἐμοῦ στόματος τὰ λελεγμένα πάντα τελέσσει" ### English translation (Claude) wasting away with thirst, hunger, plague, and slaughter, and they will call death good, and it will flee from them; for no longer will death or night give them rest. And they will ask many things in vain of God who rules on high, and then he will openly turn his face away from them. For he gave seven ages of days for repentance to wandering men, through the hands of a holy virgin. God himself showed me all these things in my mind, and he will fulfil all that has been spoken through my mouth. ### Scripture references - Rev 9:6: allusion, high confidence - Mic 3:4: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The first line of the section, which the editor sets in square brackets ("the souls of the lawless, with wailings and fear"), is treated as deleted and not translated. A margin numeral is left out. Echoes: Rev 9:6; Mic 3:4. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.351 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-351). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.361ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-361 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: God speaks through the Sibyl as the one who knows all creatures and every thought, who formed men and will convict them. ### Greek text Οἶδα δ᾽ ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ᾽ ἀριϑμὸν καὶ μέτρα ϑαλάσοσης, οἶδα μυχοὺς γαίης καὶ Τάρταρον ἠερόεντα, οἷδ᾽ ἀριϑμοὺς ἄστρων καὶ δένδρεα καὶ πόσα φῦλα τετραπόδων νηχτῶν τε καὶ ὀρνίϑων πετεηνῶν καὶ μερόπων ὄντων τε καὶ ἐσσομένων νεκύων τε" αὐτὸς γὰρ μορφὰς καὶ νοῦν ἀνδρῶν ἐτύπωσα, καὶ λόγον ὀρϑὸν ἔδωκα ἐπιστήμην τ᾽ ἐδίδαξα, ὀφϑαλμοὺς ὁ πλάσας καὶ ὦτα, βλέπων καὶ ἀκούων καὶ πᾶν ἐνθύμημα νοῶν καὶ πᾶσι συνίστωρ ἐντὸς ἐὼν σιγῶ καὶ ὕστερον αὐτὸς ἐλέγξω ### English translation (Claude) I know the number of the sand and the measures of the sea; I know the recesses of the earth and murky Tartarus; I know the numbers of the stars, and the trees, and how many races of four-footed beasts and of swimming creatures and of winged birds, and of mortals, living and yet to be, and of the dead; for I myself formed the shapes and the mind of men, and gave them right reason and taught them knowledge; I who fashioned eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, and perceiving every thought, and witness of all, being within, I keep silent, and afterwards I myself will convict ### Scripture references - Ps 94:9 (93:9 LXX): allusion, high confidence - Ps 147:4 (146:4 LXX): allusion, medium confidence - Ps 139:2 (138:2 LXX): echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - From here God speaks in the first person. Echoes: Job 38–39; Ps 94:9 (93:9 LXX); Ps 139:1–4; Ps 147:4. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.361 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-361). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.371ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-371 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: God declares that he alone is God, knowing every secret deed, and condemns the making of voiceless idols. ### Greek text ἱκάχπράξων SS ὅσσα λαϑών γε βροτῶν τις ἔπραξεν, Ἐξλϑὼν καὶ ἐπὶ βῆμα ϑεοῦ ϑνητοῖσι λαλήσων.)" καὶ κωφοῦ ξυνίημι καὶ οὐ λαλέοντος ἀκούω καὶ πόσον ἐστὶ τὸ πᾶν ἀπὸ γῆς εἰς οὐρανὸν ὕψος, 8τὸ᾽ ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος οἶδα, ὃς οὐρανὸν ἔχτισα καὶ γῆν. [πάντα γὰρ ἐξ αὐτοῦ, τὰ an’ ἀρχῆς εἰς τέλος οἶδε! μοῦνος γὰρ ϑεός εἰμι καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ϑεὸς ἄλλος. εἰκόνα ϑεσπίζουσιν ἐμὴν πλασϑεῖσαν ἀφ᾽ ὕλης, χερσί τε μορφώσαντες ἕαῖς εἴδωλον ἄναυδον 880. δοξάζουσι λιταῖς καὶ ϑρησκχείῃσιν avayvoıc. ### English translation (Claude) … whatever any mortal did in secret, coming even to the tribunal of God to speak to mortals. And I understand the mute, and hear the one who does not speak, and I know how great is the whole height from earth to heaven; I know the beginning and the end, I who created heaven and earth. For I alone am God, and there is no other god. They make oracles of an image of me fashioned from matter, and, having shaped with their own hands a voiceless idol, they glorify it with prayers and unholy worship. ### Scripture references - Rev 21:6: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 45:5: allusion, high confidence - Isa 44:9: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - A line that the editor sets in square brackets ("For all things are from him; he knows the things from beginning to end") is treated as deleted and not translated. The first word of the section is garbled in the OCR (marked "…"); margin numerals are left out. Echoes: Rev 21:6; Isa 45:5, 21; Isa 44:9–20. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.371 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-371). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.381ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-381 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: God condemns those who forsake the Creator for sacrifices, lamps, and libations offered to idols and demons. ### Greek text τὸν κτίστην προλιπόντες ἀσελγείαις ἐλάτρευσαν πάντες δ᾽ αὐτοῦ" ἔχοντες ἀχρήστοις δῶρα διδοῦσιν Ἐχαὶ ὡς ἐμὰς" τιμὰς τάδε χρήσιμα πάντα δοχοῦσιν ϑοίνῃ κγνισσοῦντες, ὡς τοῖς ἰδίοις νεκύεσσιν. 88. σάρχας γὰρ καίουσι καὶ ὀστέα μυελόεντα ϑύοντες βωμοῖς καὶ δαίμοσιν αἷμα χέουσιν καὶ λύχνους ἅπτουσιν ἐμοὶ τῷ φῶτα διδόντι, χὼς διψῶντι ϑεῷ ϑνητοὶ σπένδουσι τὸν οἶνον εἰς οὐδὲν μεϑύοντες ἐπ᾿ εἰδώλοισιν ἀχρήστοις. οὐ χρήζω ϑυσίης ἢ σπονδῆς ὑμετέρηφιν, ### English translation (Claude) Forsaking the Creator, they served in licentiousness; and all of them … give gifts to useless things, and think all these things useful, as honours to me, making feasts savoury with burnt fat, as to their own dead. For they burn flesh and marrowy bones, sacrificing on altars, and pour out blood to demons, and light lamps for me, who give the light, and as to a thirsty god mortals pour out wine, getting drunk for nothing over useless idols. I have no need of your sacrifice or libation, ### Scripture references - Rom 1:25: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Cor 10:20: allusion, medium confidence - Ps 50:13 (49:13 LXX): echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - One word is garbled in the OCR and marked "…"; a margin numeral is left out. Echoes: Rom 1:25; 1 Cor 10:20; Ps 50:12–13. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.381 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-381). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.391ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-391 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: God condemns worship of dead kings as gods, and declares that he set before men the two ways of life and death. ### Greek text οὐ “κνίσσης μιαρῆς, οὐχ αἵματος ἐχϑίστοιο. ταῦτα γὰρ ἐς μνήμην βασιλήων ἠδὲ τυράννων δαίμοσι ποιήσουσι νεχροῖς, ος οὐρανίοισιν, ϑρησχείαν ἄϑεον καὶ ὀλέϑριον ἐχτελέοντες. καὶ καλέουσι ϑεοὺς ἄϑεοι τὰς εἰχόνας αὐτῶν τὸν κτίστην προλιπόντες, ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἐλπίδα πᾶσαν καὶ ζωὴν νομίσαντες ἔχειν, κωφοῖς καὶ ἀναύδοις ἐς τὸ κακὸν πιστοὶ ἀγαϑὸν τέλος ἀγνοιοῦσιν. αὐτὸς ὁδοὺς προέϑηκα δύο, ζωῆς ϑανάτου τε, καὶ γνώμῃ προέϑηκ᾽ ἀγαϑὴν ζοὴν προελέσϑαι ### English translation (Claude) nor of polluted savour, nor of most hateful blood. For these things they will do in memory of kings and tyrants, to dead demons, as to heavenly beings, performing a godless and destructive worship. And the godless call their images gods, forsaking the Creator, thinking to have from them all hope and life, trusting in the deaf and voiceless for evil, ignorant of a good end. I myself set before them two ways, of life and of death, and set it before their judgment to choose the good life; ### Scripture references - Deut 30:15: allusion, high confidence - Deut 30:19: allusion, high confidence - Jer 21:8: allusion, medium confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Wis 14:15 (Wisdom of Solomon): echo, low confidence - Did. 1.1 (Didache): echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Echoes: Wis 14:15–21 (idols of dead kings); Deut 30:15, 19; Jer 21:8; Did. 1.1 (the two ways). ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.391 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-391). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.401ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-401 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: God teaches that man is his image, and that the true sacrifice is a bloodless table: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and helping the afflicted. ### Greek text αὐτοὶ δ᾽ ἐς ϑάνατον καὶ πῦρ αἰώνιον ἧξαν. εἰκών ἐστ᾽ ἄνϑρωπος ἐμὴ λόγον 0090» ἔχουσα τούτῳ ϑὲς καϑαρὰν καὶ ἀναίμακτον σὺ τράπεζαν πληρώσας ἀγαϑῶν καὶ δὸς πεινῶντι τὸν ἄρτον 406 καὶ διψῶντι ποτὸν καὶ εἵματα σώματι γυμνῷ ἐκ μόχϑων ἰδίων πορίσας ἁγναῖς παλάμῃσιν. ϑλιβόμενον κτῆσαι καὶ τῷ κάμνοντι παράστα καὶ ζῶσαν ϑυσίαν ἐμοὶ τῷ ζῶντι πόριζε, σπείρων νῦν ἐς ὕδωρ, ἵνα σοι κἀγώ ποτε δώσω καρποὺς ἀϑανάτους, καὶ φῶς αἰώνιον ἕξεις ### English translation (Claude) but they themselves rushed to death and eternal fire. Man is my image, possessing right reason. For him set a pure and bloodless table, filling it with good things, and give bread to the hungry, and drink to the thirsty, and garments to the naked body, providing them from your own labours with holy hands. Take the afflicted to yourself, and stand by the weary, and offer a living sacrifice to me, the living one, sowing now upon the water, so that I too may one day give you immortal fruits, and you will have eternal light ### Scripture references - Gen 1:27: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 58:7: allusion, high confidence - Matt 25:35: allusion, high confidence - Matt 25:36: allusion, high confidence - Rom 12:1: allusion, high confidence - Eccl 11:1: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - A margin numeral is left out. Echoes: Gen 1:27; Isa 58:7; Matt 25:35–36; Rom 12:1; Eccl 11:1. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.401 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-401). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.411ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-411 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: God foretells that he will test all by fire, raise the dead, destroy the sting of death, and judge the pious and the impious. ### Greek text καὶ ζωὴν ἀμάραντον, ὅταν πυρὶ πάντας ἐλέγξω. χωνεύσω γὰρ ἅπαντα καὶ εἰς καϑαρὸν διαλέξω, οὐρανὸν εἱλίξω, γαίης κευϑμῶνας ἀνοίξω, καὶ τότ᾽ ἀναστήσω νεχροὺς μοῖραν ἀναλύσας καὶ Havarov κέντρον, καὶ ὕστερον εἰς κρίσιν ἥξω κρίνων εὐσεβέων καὶ δυσσεβέων βίον ἀνδρῶν" καὶ κριὸν κριῷ καὶ ποιμένι ποιμένα ϑήσω καὶ μόσχον μόσχῳ πέλας ἀλλήλων ἐς ἔλεγχον" ### English translation (Claude) and unfading life, when I test all men by fire. For I will smelt all things and sift them out into purity; I will roll up the heaven, I will open the hidden places of the earth, and then I will raise the dead, undoing fate and the sting of death, and afterwards I will come to judgment, judging the life of pious and of impious men; and I will set ram beside ram and shepherd beside shepherd and calf beside calf, near one another, to be tested. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 3:13: allusion, medium confidence - Mal 3:3: echo, medium confidence - Isa 34:4: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Cor 15:55: allusion, high confidence - Ezek 34:17: allusion, high confidence - Matt 25:32: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Two lines of the editor's apparatus (noting that Lactantius, Divine Institutes 2.10.4, quotes "Man is my image") run into the text in the OCR and are removed by a logged correction. Echoes: 1 Cor 3:13; Mal 3:2–3; Isa 34:4; 1 Cor 15:55; Ezek 34:17; Matt 25:32. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.411 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-411). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.421ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-421 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: God foretells the judgment of those who silenced the holy for gain, and the endless day of light for the approved; a hymn to the eternal God begins. ### Greek text οἵτινες ὑψώϑησαν ἐλεγχόμενοι ὑπ᾽ ἐλέγχῳ καὶ στόμα παντὸς ἔφραξαν, ἵν᾿ αὐτοὶ ζηλώσαντες τοὺς ὁσίως πράσσοντας ἴσως καταδουλώσουσιν σιγᾶν προστάσσοντες, ἐπειγόμενοι διὰ κέρδος. Ἐχαὶ δόκιμοι παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ τότε χωρήσουσιν ἅπαντες, οὐκ ἐχϑὲς γέγονεν" οὐχ ἤματα πολλὰ μεριμνᾷς, κοὐχέτι λοιπὸν ἐρεῖς λυπούμενος, αὔριον ἔσται᾽, οὐκ ἔαρ, οὐ χειμῶν᾽, οὔτ᾽ ἂρ ϑέρος, οὐ μετόπωρον, οὐ δύσιν ἀντολίην" ποιήσω γὰρ μαχρὸν ἤμαρ. εἰς δ᾽ αἰῶνα τὸ φῶς “ > --- πεποϑημένον ἔσται. 3 ᾿ » ), >, ’ αὐτογένητος, ἄχραντος, ἀένναος ἀϊίδιός τε, ### English translation (Claude) those who were exalted, convicted by conviction, and stopped everyone's mouth, so that, being jealous, they might perhaps enslave those who act with holiness, commanding them to be silent, hastening for gain. … and all who are approved by me will then go forward. It has not happened yesterday; you do not care for many days, and no longer will you say, grieving, "It will be tomorrow," no spring, no winter, nor summer, no autumn, no setting, no rising; for I will make a long day. And into eternity the longed-for light will be … . Self-begotten, undefiled, everlasting, eternal, ### Scripture references - Zech 14:7: allusion, medium confidence - Rev 22:5: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Several words are garbled in the OCR (marked "…"), and a line of misread accent marks is left out. Echoes: Zech 14:7; Rev 21:23–25; Rev 22:5. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.421 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-421). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.431ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-431 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: A hymn praises the self-begotten, eternal God who rules thunder, lightning, rain, and hail, and his Child, begotten before all creation, counsellor and creator. ### Greek text Ἐοὐρανοῦχος ἰσχύι μετρῶν ἔπυρόεσσαν αὐτμήν καὶ πατάγου ὄχῆπτρον κατέχει σὺν ἀπηνέι πυρσῷ, πρηῦνει τὲ βαρυχτυπέων δουπήματα βροντῶν, γῆν κλονέων κατέχει ῥοιζήματα ....... κἀστεροπῶν μάστιγας ἀπαμβλύνει πυροφεγγεῖς ομβρωῶν δ᾽ ἄσπετα χεύματ᾽ ἔχει ῥιπάς τε χαλάζης χρυμαλέης νεφελῶν τε βολὰς καὶ χείματος ὁρμάς. αὐτοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἕχαστα νόῳ διατεχμαίρονται͵ ὅσσα περ αὐτῷ σοι δοκέει πρήσσειν τ᾽ ἐπινεύεις. ἐσῷ παιδὶ πρὸ κτίσεως πάσης στέρνοις ἴσοισι πεφυκώς" σύμβουλος, πλάστης μερόπων κτίστης τε βίοιο. ### English translation (Claude) who holds heaven, measuring with his strength the fiery breath, and holds the sceptre of the thunder-crash with relentless fire, and calms the din of heavy-roaring thunders; shaking the earth, he holds back the rushing … , and blunts the fire-bright whips of the lightnings, and holds the countless streams of rains, and the gusts of icy hail, and the casting of clouds, and the onsets of winter. For they discern each thing with mind, whatever seems good to you to do, and to which you give your nod. Your Child, begotten before all creation, of one heart with you, counsellor, fashioner of mortals, and creator of life. ### Scripture references - Ps 147:16 (147:5 LXX): echo, medium confidence - Col 1:15: allusion, high confidence - Col 1:16: allusion, medium confidence - Prov 8:30: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "Of one heart with you" renders στέρνοις ἴσοισι πεφυκώς ("born with equal breast"); the line is obscure in the edition and the OCR. "They" in "they discern each thing" may be the angels; uncertain. Echoes: Job 37–38; Ps 147:8, 16–18; Col 1:15–16; Prov 8:22–30. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.431 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-431). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.441ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-441 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The hymn tells how God said to the Word, "Let us make man in our form," and how all the elements obeyed his command. ### Greek text ὃν πρώτῃ στόματος γλυχερῇ προσφϑέγξαο φωνῇ" “ποιήσωμεν ἰδοὺ πανομοίιον ἀνέρα μορφῇ ἡμετέρῃ καὶ δῶμεν ἔχειν ζωαρχέα πνοιήν᾽ © ϑνητῷ περ ἐόντι τὰ κοσμικὰ πάντα λατρεύσει καὶ χοικῷ πλασϑέντι τὰ πάνϑ᾽ ὑποτάξομεν αὐτῷ᾽. ταῦτα δ᾽ ἔφησϑα Λόγῳ, τῇ σῇ φρενὶ πάντα δ᾽ ἐτύχϑη" πάντα δ᾽ ὁμοῦ στδιχεῖα κελεύσματι πείϑετο τῷ σῷ, ἠέλιος μήνη, χορὸς ἄστρων "οῦρεα RN ### English translation (Claude) to whom first you spoke with the sweet voice of your mouth: "Behold, let us make a man wholly like our form, and let us give him life-giving breath to have; him, though he is mortal, all the things of the world will serve, and to him, fashioned from dust, we will subject all things." These things you said to the Word, and by your mind all things came to be; and all the elements together obeyed your command: sun, moon, the chorus of stars, mountains, … ### Scripture references - Gen 1:26: allusion, high confidence - Gen 2:7: allusion, high confidence - Ps 8:6 (8:7 LXX): allusion, medium confidence - John 1:3: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Lines of the editor's apparatus (a parallel from Theophilus, To Autolycus 1.6) run into this section in the OCR and are removed by a logged correction. The end of the last line is garbled (marked "…"). Echoes: Gen 1:26–28; Gen 2:7; Ps 8:6; John 1:3. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.441 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-441). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.451ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-451 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The hymn tells how all creation was ordered for man, and how in the last times the Word came from heaven, took mortal form of the virgin Mary, and Gabriel was sent to her. ### Greek text εὐφρόνη ἡμέρη ὕπνος ἔγερσις πνεῦμα καὶ ὁρμή, ψυχὴ καὶ σύνεσις, τέχνη φωνή τε καὶ ἀλκή ζῴων τ᾽ ἄγρια φῦλα τὰ »νηκτῶν καὶ πετεηνῶν καὶ κτίσις ‚aldıog συνετάσσετο πλάσματι ϑνητῷ, πεζῶν τ᾽ ἀμφιβίων τε καὶ ἑρπυστῶν διφυῶν TE‘ οὐρανὸς ἀὴρ πῦρ χϑὼν γῆ καὶ χεῦμα ϑαλάσοης, “ὃ πάντα γὰρ αὐτός σοι συνετάσσετο σῇ ὑπ᾽ ἀγωγῇ. ' ὑστατίοις τε χρόνοις χϑόν ἀμείψατο καὶ βραχὺς ἐλϑών παρϑένου ἐκ Μαρίας λαγόνων ἀνέτειλε νέον φῶς, οὐρανόϑεν δὲ μολὼν βροτέην ἐνεδύσατο μορφήν. πρῶτα μὲν οὖν Γαβριὴλ σϑεναρὸν δέμας ἁγνὸν ἐδείχϑη; δεύτερα καὶ κούρην ἀρχάγγελος ἔννεπε φωνῇ" - ### English translation (Claude) night, day, sleep, waking, spirit and impulse, soul and understanding, art, voice and strength, and the wild races of living things, of swimming creatures and of birds, and the eternal creation was ordered together for the mortal creature, of walkers and amphibians and creeping things and two-natured ones, heaven, air, fire, the land, the earth, and the flood of the sea; for all things were ordered together for you under your guidance. And in the last times he passed to the earth, and coming small, from the womb of the virgin Mary he rose up as a new light, and, coming from heaven, he put on mortal form. First, then, Gabriel's strong and holy body was shown; and second, the archangel spoke to the maiden with his voice: ### Scripture references - Gal 4:4: allusion, medium confidence - Luke 1:26: allusion, high confidence - Luke 1:28: allusion, high confidence - Phil 2:7: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 9:2: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - Three lines of the editor's apparatus (a parallel from Theophilus, and references to Athenagoras, Diognetus, and Melito) are interleaved with the verse in the OCR and are removed by logged corrections. Echoes: Gal 4:4; Luke 1:26–28; Phil 2:7; Isa 9:2. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.451 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-451). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.461ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-461 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The hymn tells of the annunciation: Gabriel bids the virgin receive God; she trembles, then rejoices, and the Word enters her womb and is made flesh. ### Greek text “δέξαι ἀχράντοισι ϑεὸν σοῖς, παρϑένε, κόλποις᾽. ὡς εἰπὼν ἔμπνευσε ϑεὸς χάριν *Nd αἰεὶ" κούρῃ" τὴν δᾶρα τάρβος ὁμοῦ ϑάμβος 9 ἕλεν εἰσαΐουσαν, στῆ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑποτρομέουσα᾽ νόος δέ οἱ ἐπτοίητο παλλομένης χραδίης ὑπ᾿ ἀγνώστοισιν ἀκουαῖς. αὖτις δ᾽ εὐφράνϑη καὶ ἰάνϑη κέαρ αὐδῇ, κουρίδιον δ᾽ ἐγέλασσεν, ξὴν δ᾽ ἐρύϑηνε παρειήν χάρματι τερπομένη καὶ ϑελγομένη φρένας αἰδοῖ, καί οἱ ϑάρσος ἐπῆλϑεν. ἔπος δ᾽ εἰσέπτατο νηϑδύν, “τὸ σαρχωϑὲν δὲ χρόνῳ καὶ γαστέρι ζῳογονηϑέν ### English translation (Claude) "Receive God, virgin, in your undefiled bosom." So saying, God breathed grace into the maiden … ; and fear and amazement together seized her as she heard, and she stood trembling; and her mind fluttered, her heart quivering at the unknown tidings. But again she was gladdened, and her heart was warmed by the voice, and she laughed like a maiden, and her cheek reddened, delighting in joy and her mind charmed with modesty, and courage came upon her. And the Word flew into her womb, and, having been made flesh in time and brought to life in the womb, ### Scripture references - Luke 1:29: allusion, high confidence - Luke 1:35: allusion, high confidence - Luke 1:38: allusion, medium confidence - John 1:14: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - One phrase in the second line is garbled in the OCR (marked "…"). Echoes: Luke 1:29–38; John 1:14. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.461 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-461). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.471ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-471 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The hymn tells of the virgin birth, the joy of heaven and earth, the star of the Magi, the babe in the manger shown to the shepherds, and Bethlehem the homeland of the Word. ### Greek text ἐπλάσϑη βροτέην ἰδέην καὶ κοῦρος ἐτύχϑη παρϑενικοῖς τοκετοῖς" τόδε γὰρ μέγα ϑαῦμα βροτοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν μέγα ϑαῦμα ϑεῷ πατρὶ καὶ ϑεῷ υἱῷ. τικτόμενον δὲ βρέφος ποτὶ δ᾽ ἔπτατο γηϑοσύνη χϑών, οὐράνιος δ᾽ ἐγέλασσε ϑρόνος καὶ ἀγάλλετο κόσμος. καινοφαὴς δὲ μάγοισι σεβάσϑη ϑέσφατος ἀστήρ, σπειρωϑὲν δὲ βρέφος δείχϑη ϑεοπειϑέσι φάτνῃ βουπελάταις τε καὶ αἰγονόμοις καὶ ποιμέσιν ἀρνῶν" καὶ Λόγου ἡ Βηϑλεὲμ πατρὶς ϑεόκλητος ἐλέχϑη. ω * ἐν κραδίῃ τε FOREIRORDORERN, πικρὰ τέρματα μισεῖν ### English translation (Claude) he was formed in mortal shape and became a boy by a virgin birth; for this is a great wonder to mortals, but no great wonder to God the Father and God the Son. When the babe was born, the earth leapt for joy, and the heavenly throne laughed, and the world exulted. And the new-shining star, foretold by God, was revered by the Magi, and the babe in swaddling clothes was shown in a manger to those who obey God, to ox-herds and goatherds and shepherds of lambs; and Bethlehem was called the God-named fatherland of the Word. … and in the heart … to hate bitter ends ### Scripture references - Isa 7:14: echo, medium confidence - Matt 2:2: allusion, high confidence - Matt 2:9: allusion, high confidence - Luke 2:7: allusion, high confidence - Luke 2:16: allusion, high confidence - Mic 5:2 (5:1 LXX): allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The last two lines are garbled in the OCR and marked "…". Echoes: Isa 7:14; Matt 2:2, 9–11; Luke 2:7–16; Mic 5:2. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.471 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-471). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.481ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-481 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Sibyl says that Christians, kin of Christ's heavenly race, love God and neighbour and do not approach temples or honour images with libations, flowers, lamps, or offerings. ### Greek text καὶ πάντων ἀγαπᾶν τὸν πλησίον ὥσπερ ξαυτόν᾽ καὶ ϑεὸν ἐκ ψυχῆς φιλέειν, αὐτῷ δὲ λατρεύειν. Tovvex ἄρ᾽ ἡμεῖς καὶ ὁσίης Χριστοῖο γενέϑλης οὐρανίης πεφυῶτες ἐπικλεόμεσϑα σύναιμοι 46 μνῆστιν ἐυφροσύνης ἐπὶ ϑρησκείῃσιν ἔχοντες, εὐσεβίης τε καὶ ἀτρεκίης βαίνοντες ἀταρπούς. οὔποτε πρὸς νηῶν ἀδύτοις ἐώμεσϑα πελάζειν, οὐ ξοάνοις σπένδειν, οὐδ᾽ εὐχωλῇσι γεραίρειν, - οὐδ᾽ ὀὁδμαῖς ἀνϑῶν πολυτερπέσιν οὐδὲ μὲν αὐγαῖς λαμπτήρων, ἀτὰρ οὐδ᾽ “ἄρα τοὺς" ἀναϑήμασι κοσμεῖν, ### English translation (Claude) and to love the neighbour of all as oneself, and to love God from the soul and to serve him. Therefore we, born of the holy, heavenly race of Christ, are called his kinsmen, keeping a remembrance of gladness in our worship, and treading the paths of piety and truth. We are never permitted to approach the inner shrines of temples, nor to pour libations to images, nor to honour them with vows, nor with the delightful scents of flowers, nor with the gleam of lamps, nor indeed to adorn them with offerings, ### Scripture references - Matt 22:37: allusion, high confidence - Matt 22:39: allusion, high confidence - Lev 19:18: allusion, medium confidence - Deut 6:5: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Pet 2:9: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - A margin numeral is left out. Echoes: Matt 22:37–39; Lev 19:18; Deut 6:5; 1 Pet 2:9. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.481 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-481). ## Sibylline Oracles 8.491ff. - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-491 - Source: Geffcken GCS 8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17 Summary: The Eighth Book ends: instead of incense and blood sacrifice, Christians are bidden to praise the imperishable God, begetter of all, with pure hearts, love, generous hands, and psalms. ### Greek text οὐ λιβάνου ἀτμοῖσιν ἀνιεῖσιν φλόγα “βωμόν Ὁ" οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ ταυροϑύτοις μηλόσφαγα αἵματα λοιβαῖς λυτροχαρεῖς πέμπειν, χϑονίας μειλίγματα ποινῆς" οὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ σαρχοβύόροιο πυρῆς κνισσώδεϊ καπνῷ καὶ μιαραῖς πνοιῇσι μιαίνειν αἰϑέρος αὐγήν" ἀλλ᾽ ἁγναῖς πραπίδεσσι γεγηϑότες εὔφρονι ϑυμῷ ἀφνειαῖς τ᾽ ἀγάπῃσι καὶ εὐδώροις παλάμῃσιν μειλιχίοις ψαλμοῖσι ϑεοπρεπέεσοσί TE μολπαῖς ἄφϑιτον ἐξυμνεῖν σε καὶ ἄψευστον κελόμεσϑα, 5800 παγγενετῆρα ϑεόν, πινυτόφρονα .........-. ### English translation (Claude) nor to send up flame to the altar with the vapours of frankincense, nor, at sacrifices of bulls, to send the blood of slaughtered sheep in libations, delighting in ransom, as appeasements of earthly punishment; nor, with the savoury smoke of a flesh-devouring pyre and with polluted breaths, to defile the light of the aether; but, rejoicing with holy hearts and a glad spirit, with abundant love and generous hands, with gentle psalms and songs fitting for God, we are bidden to hymn you, the imperishable and the one without falsehood, God, begetter of all, wise of mind … . ### Scripture references - Eph 5:19: allusion, high confidence - Col 3:16: allusion, medium confidence - Heb 13:15: allusion, medium confidence - Heb 13:16: allusion, medium confidence - Titus 1:2: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - The last line breaks off in the edition and the OCR (marked "…"); a margin numeral is left out. Echoes: Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; Heb 13:15–16; Titus 1:2. ### Citation (SBL) Sib. Or. 8.491 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1/#p-8-491).