{"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6.1":{"o":"Aöyos ἕχτος.\n\"Adavarov μέγαν υἱὸν ἀοίδιμον ἐκ φρενὸς αὐδῶ,\nᾧ ϑρόνον ὕψιστος γενέτης παρέδωχε λαβέσϑαι\nοὔπω γεννηϑέντι ἐπεὶ κατὰ σάρκα τὸ δισσόν\nἠγέρϑη, προχοαῖς ἀπολουσάμενος ποταμοῖο\nἸορδάνου, ὃς φέρεται γλαυχῷ ποδί, κύματα σύρων.\nὃς πυρὸς ἐχφεύξας πρῶτος ϑεὸν ὄψεται ἡδύν\nπνεύματι γενόμενον, λευκαῖς πτερύγεσσι πελείης.\nἀνϑήσει δ᾽ ἄνϑος καϑαρόν, βρύσουσι δὲ πηγαί.\nδείξει δ᾽ ἀνϑρώποισιν ὁδούς, δείξει δὲ κελεύϑους\nοὐρανίας\" πάντας δὲ σοφοῖς μύϑοισι διδάξει.","t":"Sixth Book.\nThe great immortal Son, renowned in song, I proclaim from my heart,\nto whom the Most High Father gave a throne to receive\nwhen he was not yet born; since according to the flesh he was raised up a second time,\nhaving washed himself in the outpourings of the river\nJordan, which moves with grey-blue foot, sweeping its waves along.\nHe, having escaped the fire, will be the first to see God, sweet,\ncoming in the Spirit, on the white wings of a dove.\nA pure flower will blossom, and springs will gush forth.\nHe will show men ways, he will show the paths\nof heaven; and he will teach all with wise words.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 6.1 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-1)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6.11":{"o":"ἥξει δ᾽ ἔς τε δίκην καὶ πείσει λαὸν ἀπειϑῆ\nαἰνετὸν αὐχήσας πατρὸς γένος οὐρανίδαο.\nκύματα πεζεύσει, νόσον ἀνθρώπων ἀπολύσει,\nστήσει τεϑνηῶτας, ἀπώσεται ἄλγεα πολλά\"\nἐκ δὲ μιῆς πήρης ἄρτου κόρος ἔσσεται ἀνδρῶν,\nοἶχος ὅταν Δαυὶδ φύῃ φυτόν\" ἐν χερὶ δ᾽ αὐτοῦ\nκόσμος ὅλος καὶ γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς ἠδὲ ϑάλασσα.\nἀστράψει δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆν, οἷόν ποτε πρῶτα φανέντα\nεἶδον ἀπ᾿ ἀλλήλων πλευρῶν δύο γεννηϑέντες.\nἔσσεται, ἡνίκα γαῖα χαρήσεται ἐλπίδι παιδός.","t":"He will come to judgment and persuade a disobedient people,\nboasting of the praiseworthy race of his heavenly Father.\nHe will walk upon the waves, he will free men from disease,\nhe will raise the dead, he will drive away many pains;\nand from one wallet there will be bread to fill men,\nwhen the house of David puts forth a shoot; and in his hand\nis the whole world, and earth and heaven and sea.\nHe will flash like lightning upon the earth, as once, when he first appeared,\nthe two born from each other's sides saw him.\nIt will be when the earth rejoices in the hope of a child.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 6.11 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-11)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6.21":{"o":"σοὶ δὲ μόνῃ, Σοδομῖτι γαίη, κακὰ πήματα κεῖται\"\nαὐτὴ γὰρ δύσφρων τὸν σὸν ϑεὸν οὐχ ἐνόησας\nἐλϑόντα ϑνητοῖσιν ἐν ὀμμασιν᾽ ἀλλ᾿ ἀπ᾿ ἀκάνϑης\nἔστεψας στεφάνῳ, φοβερὴν δὲ χολὴν ἐχέρασσας\nεἰς ὕβριν καὶ \"πνεῦμα \"\" τό σοι “κακὰ πήματα τεύξει.\nὦ ξύλον ὦ μακαριστόν, ἐφ᾽ οὐ ϑεὸς ἐξετανύσϑη,\nοὐχ ἕξει σε χϑών, ἀλλ᾽ οὐρανὸν οἶχον ἐσόψει,\nἡνίχα ἀστράψειζε) τὸ σόν, ϑεός, ἔμπυρον ὄμμα.","t":"But for you alone, land of Sodom, evil woes are laid up;\nfor you yourself, ill-minded, did not perceive your God\ncoming before the eyes of mortals; but with the thorn\nyou crowned him with a crown, and you mixed fearful gall\nfor insult, and a drink, which will bring you evil woes.\nO wood, O most blessed, on which God was stretched out,\nthe earth will not hold you, but you will look upon heaven as your home,\nwhen your fiery eye, O God, flashes forth.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 6.21 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/6-21)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.1":{"o":"\nἜχ τοῦ ἑβδόμου λόγου.\nὮ Ῥύδε δειλαίη 00 σὲ γὰρ πρώτην, σὲ δακρύσω\"\nἔσσῃ δὲ πρώτη πόλεων, πρώτη δ᾽ ἀπολέσοσῃ,\nἀνδρῶν μὲν χήρη, βιότου δέ τε πάμπαν *adsvang*\nΚύπρε, σὲ δ᾽ ἐξολέσει γλαυκῆς ποτε κῦμα ϑαλάσσης\"\nΔῆλε, σὺ μὲν πλεύσεις καὶ ἐφ᾽ ὕδατος ἄστατος ἔσσῃ\"\nΣικελίη, φλέξει σε τὸ καιόμενον κατὰ σοῦ πῦρ.\nτοῦτο, λέγω, τὸ ϑεοῦ φοβερὸν καὶ ἐπήλυτον ὕδωρ.\nNo&£ τις ἐκ πάντων μοῦνος φυγὰς ἤλυϑεν ἀνδρῶν.\n\nπλεύσει γῆ, πλεύσει δὲ 00N, πλεύσει δὲ καὶ αἰϑήρ.\nὕδωρ ἔσται ἅπαντα καὶ ὕδασι πάντ᾽ ἀπολεῖται.","t":"From the seventh book.\nO wretched Rhodes, for you first, for you I will weep;\nyou will be first of cities, and first you will perish,\nbereft of men, and utterly … of livelihood.\nCyprus, the wave of the grey sea will one day destroy you.\nDelos, you will float, and be unstable on the water.\nSicily, the fire that burns beneath you will consume you.\nThis, I say, is the fearful and coming water of God.\nNoah alone of all men came out as a fugitive.\nThe earth will float, … will float, and the sky will float.\nAll will be water, and by waters all will perish.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.1 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-1)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.101":{"o":"αὐχήσεις αἰῶνα, (di) αἰώνων ἀπολέσσῃ\nϑερμῷ πνεύματι πᾶσα, μανήσῃ δ᾽ ἄλγεσι πολλοῖς.\nΚελτὶ γαίη, τὸ δὲ σὸν κατ᾽ 0005, παρὰ δύσβατον \"Alnıy,\nψάμμος ὅλην χώσει σε βαϑύς\" φόρον οὐχέτι δώσεις,\nοὔ στάχυν, οὐ βοτάνας\" πανέρημος ἔσῃ δ᾽ ἀπὸ λαῶν\nαἰεί, κρυμαλέοις δὲ παχυνομένη χρυστάλλοις\nλώβην ἐκχτίσεις, ἣν οὐκ ἐνόησας, ἄναγνε.\nῬώμη καρτερόϑυμε, Μακηδονίην μετὰ λόγχην\nἀστράψεις ἐς Ὄλυμπον ϑεὸς δέ σε πάμπαν ἄπυστον\nποιήσει, ὁπόταν δοχέῃς πολὺ κρεῖσσον ἐς ὄμμα","t":"you will boast for an age, but through the ages you will perish\nwholly by a hot wind, and you will rave with many pains.\nCeltic land, along your mountain, by the impassable Alps,\ndeep sand will bury you wholly; you will no longer give tribute,\nno ear of grain, no pasture; you will be wholly desolate of peoples\nfor ever, and thickened with icy crystals\nyou will pay for the outrage which you did not perceive, unholy one.\nRome, strong of spirit, after the Macedonian spear\nyou will flash up to Olympus; but God will make you\nutterly unheard of, when you think, far stronger in appearance,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.101 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-101)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.11":{"o":"στήσονται δ᾽ ἄνεμοι καὶ δεύτερος ἔσσεται αἰών.\nὦ Φρυγίη, πρώτη δ᾽ ἀναλάμψεις ὕδατος ἄκρου\"\nπρώτη δ᾽ εἰς ἀσέβειαν ἀπαρνήσῃ ϑεὸν αὐτή\nεἰδώλοις ἀλάλοις κεχαρισμένη, ὅσσα σε, δειλή,\nἐξολέσει πολλῶν περιτελλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν.\nΑἰϑίοπες δύστηνοι *ön’* ἄλγεα οἰκτρὰ παϑόντες\nῥομφαίαις πλήξονται ὑπὸ χρόα πεπτηῶτες.\nτῆν λιπαρὴν Αἴγυπτον ἀεὶ σταχύεσσι μέλουσαν,\nἣν Νεῖλος νηχτοῖς ὑπὸ χεύμασιν ἑπτὰ μεϑύσκει,\nἀλλήλων ἔμφυλος ὀλεῖ στάσις\" ἔνϑεν ἀέλπτως","t":"And the winds will cease, and there will be a second age.\nO Phrygia, you will be the first to shine forth from the top of the water;\nyou first will deny God in impiety,\ndelighting in dumb idols, which, wretched one, will destroy you\nas many years revolve.\nThe wretched Ethiopians, suffering pitiable pains,\nwill be struck with swords, cowering in their bodies.\nRich Egypt, ever caring for ears of grain,\nwhich the Nile makes drunk with seven swimming streams,\nkindred strife among themselves will destroy; then unexpectedly","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.11 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-11)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.111":{"o":"ἑδραίη μίμνειν\" τότε σοι τοιαῦτα βοήσω\"\nὀλλυμένη φϑέγξῃ λαμπρόν ποτε *xa, μαρμάραν σε\"\nδεύτερά σοι, Ῥώμη, μέλλω πάλι δεύτερα φωνεῖν.\nἄρτι δέ σε, Συρίη “λῆμον, “κατοδύρομαι οἰκτρῶς.\nΘῆβαι δύσβουλοι, ὑμῖν κακὸς ἦχος ἐπέσται\nαὐλῶν φϑεγγομένων, ὑμῖν σάλπιγξ κακὸν ἦχον\nἠχήσει, ὄψεσϑε δ᾽ ἀπολλυμένην χϑόνα πᾶσαν.\nαἰαῖ σοι τλῆμον, αἰαῖ κοχόϑυμε ϑάλασσα.\nβρωϑήσῃ πυρὶ πᾶσα καὶ ἐξολέσεις λαὸν ἅλμῃ.\nἔσται γάρ τε τοσοῦτον ἐπὶ χϑονὶ μαινόμενον πῦρ,","t":"that you will remain firmly established; then I will cry such things to you:\n\"Perishing, you will once cry out aloud … .\"\nA second time, Rome, I am about to speak to you again a second time.\nAnd now, wretched Syria, I lament you piteously.\nThebes ill-counselled, an evil sound will come upon you\nof flutes sounding; for you the trumpet will sound\nan evil sound, and you will see the whole land perishing.\nAlas for you, wretched one, alas, sea of evil temper!\nYou will be wholly devoured by fire, and destroy the people with brine.\nFor there will be so much raging fire on the earth","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.111 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-111)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.121":{"o":"ὅσσον ὕδωρ, ῥεύσει τε καὶ ἐξολέσει χϑόνα πᾶσαν.\nφλέξει ὅρη, καύσει ποταμούς, πηγὰς δὲ κενώσει.\nἔσται κόσμος ἄκοσμος ἀπολλυμένων ἀνϑρώπων.\nκαιόμενοι δὲ κακῶς τότε τλήμονες ἐμβλέψουσιν\nοὐρανόν, οὐχ ἄστροις, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν πυρὶ κεκμηῶτα.\nοὐδὲ ϑοῶς ὀλέχονται, ἀπολλυμένων δ᾽ ὑπὸ σαρχῶν\nπνεύματι καιόμενοι εἰς αἰώνων ἐνιαυτούς\nαἰεὶ δυσβασάνιστα ϑεοῦ νόμον εἰδήσουσιν\nοὐχ ἀπαφητὸν ἐόντα, βιαζομένη δ᾽ ἄρα γαῖα,\nὅντινα τολμήσασα ϑεῶν ἐπεδέξατο βωμοῖς","t":"as there is water; and it will flow and destroy the whole earth.\nIt will burn mountains, burn rivers, and empty the springs.\nThe world will be no world, as men perish.\nAnd then the wretched, burning miserably, will look up\nat heaven, not with stars, but worn out in fire.\nNor will they perish quickly, but, as their flesh perishes,\nburning in spirit for years of ages,\nfor ever in grievous torments they will know the law of God\nto be not deceitful; and the earth, under constraint,\nwhatever gods it dared to receive on its altars,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.121 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-121)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.131":{"o":"ψευδομένη, καπνὸν εἶδε di αἰϑέρος *arlyndevra*.\nκεῖνοι δὲ τλήσονται ἄγαν πόνον, οἱ διὰ κέρδος\nαἰσχρὰ προφητεύσουσι κακὸν χρόνον ἀλδαίνοντες.\nοἱ μὲν δυσάμενοι προβάτων λασιότριχα δινά\nἙβραῖοι ψεύσονται, ὃ μὴ γένος ἔλλαβον αὐτοί,\nἀλλὰ λόγοις λαλέοντες ἐπ᾽ ἄλγεσι χερδαντῆρες\nοὐ βίον ἀλλάξουσι καὶ οὐ πείσουσι δικαίους,\nοἵτε ϑεὸν πάμπιστα διὰ φρενὸς ἱλάσκονται.\nἐν δὲ τρίτῳ κλήρῳ περιτελλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν\nὀγδοάδος πρώτης ἄλλος πάλι κόσμος ὁρᾶται.","t":"deceiving, it saw smoke through the boundless aether.\nAnd those will suffer very great toil, who for gain\nwill prophesy shameful things, fostering an evil time.\nThose who, putting on the shaggy skins of sheep,\nwill falsely claim to be Hebrews, a race they did not receive,\nbut, speaking with words, profiting from sorrows,\nwill not change their life, and will not persuade the righteous,\nwho appease God most faithfully in their minds.\nAnd in the third lot of the revolving years\nof the first ogdoad, another world is seen again.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.131 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-131)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.141":{"o":"γνὺξ ἔσται πάντη σὺ -- μακρὴ καὶ ἀπειϑής.\nκαὶ τότε μὲν ϑείου δεινὴ περιβήσεται ὀδμή\nἀγγέλλουσα φόγους, ὁπόταν κεῖνοι ἀπόλωνται\nγυχτί TE καὶ λιμῷ᾽ τότε γεννήσει καϑαρὸν νοῦν\nus  ἀνϑρώπων, στήσει δὲ τεὸν γένος, ος πάρος ἣν σοι\"\nοὐχέτι τις κόψει βαϑὺν αὐλακα γυρῷ ἀρότρφ᾽\nοὐ βόες ἰϑυντῆρα κάτω βάψουσι σίδηρον\"\nκλήματα δ᾽ οὐκ ἔσται οὐδὲ στάχυς\" ἀλλ᾽ ἅμα πᾶντες\nμᾶάννην τὴν δροσερὴν λευκοῖσιν ὀδοῦσι φάγονται.\nσὺν δ᾽ αὐτοῖς ἔσται τότε καὶ ϑεός, ὃς σε διδάξει,","t":"There will be night everywhere, … long and unyielding.\nAnd then a dread smell of sulphur will spread around,\nannouncing murders, when those perish\nby night and by hunger; then he will beget a pure mind\n… of men, and will establish your race, as it was for you before.\nNo longer will anyone cut a deep furrow with the curved plough;\nno oxen will plunge the guiding iron down;\nthere will be no vine-branches nor ears of grain; but all together\nwill eat the dewy manna with white teeth.\nAnd with them then will be God too, who will teach you,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.141 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-141)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.151":{"o":"os ἐμὲ τὴν λυγρήν. ὅσα γὰρ κακὰ πρόσϑεν ἔρεξα\nεἰδυῖ᾽, ἄλλα τε πολλὰ κακῶς ἐπόνησ᾽ ἀμελοῦσα.\nμυρία μέν μοι λέκτρα, γάμος δ᾽ οὐδεὶς ἐμελήϑη\"\nπᾶσι δ᾽ ἐγὼ πανάπιστος ἐπήγαγον ἄγριον ὕρχον.\nδευομένους ἀπέκλεισα καὶ ἐν Ἐπρομολοῦσιν \" ἰοῦσα\nἘἸχελον εἰς αὐλῶνα ϑεοῦ φάτιν 00x ἐνόησα.\ntovvsxa πῦρ u ἔφαγεν καὶ βρώσεται\" οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτή\nζήσομαι, ἀλλ᾽ ὀλέσει με κακὸς χρόνος, ἔνϑα τάφον μοι\nἄνϑρωποι τεύξουσι παρερχόμενοί μὲ ϑαλάσσῃ.\nκαί με λίϑοις ὀλέσουσ᾽ \" ἐπ᾿ ἐμῷ γὰρ πατρὶ λαλοῦσα","t":"as he taught me, the wretched one. For all the evils I did before,\nknowingly, and many other things I wickedly wrought through neglect.\nCountless were my beds, but no marriage was my care;\nupon all I, utterly faithless, brought a savage oath.\nI shut out those in need, and going among …\n… I did not perceive the word of God.\nTherefore fire has eaten me and will devour me; for I myself\nwill not live, but an evil time will destroy me, when men\nwill build a tomb for me as they pass me by at the sea.\nAnd they will kill me with stones; for speaking against my father","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.151 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-151)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.161":{"o":"*yia φίλον\" μετέδωκχα. βάλοιτέ με, βάλλετε πάντες\"\nοὕτω γὰρ ζήσω καὶ ἐς οὐρανὸν ouuara πήξω.","t":"… I gave a share to my dear one. Stone me, stone me, all of you;\nfor so I shall live and fix my eyes on heaven.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.161 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-161)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.21":{"o":"ἀνέρες ἐξελάσουσι τὸν οὐ ϑεὸν ἀνδράσιν \"Anıy.\nαἰαῖ, Δαοδίκεια, σὺ δ᾽ οὐ ϑεὸν οὐποτ᾽ ἰδοῦσα\nψεύσῃ, τολμηρή᾽ κλύσσει δέ σε κῦμα Δύχοιο.\nαὐτὸς \"ὁ γεννηϑεὶς Ἐ ὃ μέγας ϑεὸς *aoro ὃς\" πολλά\nποιήσει, κρεμάσει δὲ δι᾽ αἰϑέρος ἄξονα μέσσον,\nστήσει δ᾽ ἀνϑρώποισι μέγαν φόβον ὑψόσ ἰδέσϑαι\nκίονα μετρήσας μεγάλῳ πυρί, οὗ ῥαϑάμιγγες\nἀνϑρώπων ὀλέσουσι γένη κακὰ δηλησάντων.\nἔσται γάρ ποτε κεῖνος ἅπαξ χρόνος, ἔνϑα δὲ φῶτες\nἐξιλάσουσι ϑεόν, ἀλλ οὐ παύσουσιν ἀνίας","t":"men will drive out Apis, who is no god for men.\nAlas, Laodicea, you who never saw God\nwill lie, bold one; the wave of the Lycus will wash over you.\nHe himself, the begotten, the great God, … will do many things,\nand will hang the middle axis through the aether,\nand will set up for men a great terror to see on high,\nmeasuring out a pillar with great fire, whose drops\nwill destroy the races of men who did evil harm.\nFor there will be once that time, when men\nwill seek to appease God, but will not stop the griefs","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.21 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-21)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.31":{"o":"ἀκράντους. Δαυὶδ δὲ δι’ οἴχου πάντα τελεῖται.\nτῷ γάρ τ᾽ αὐτὸς ἔδωκε ϑεὸς ϑρόνον ἐγγυαλίξας\"\nοἱ δὲ διαγγελτῆρες ὑπαὶ ποσὶ κοιμήσονται,\nοἵ τε πυρὰς φαίνουσι καὶ ol ποταμοὺς *palvovoır,*\nοἵ τ᾽ ἄστη σῴζουσι καὶ οἱ πέμπουσιν ἀήτας. ---\nπολλοῖς δ᾽ av χαλεπὸς βίος ἀνθρώποισιν ἔπεισιν\nἐσδύνων ψυχαῖσι καὶ ἀλλάσσων φρένας. ἀνδρῶν.\nἀλλ᾽ ὅταν 2x ῥίζης βλαστὸς νέος ὄμματα φύσῃ,\nἘτὴν xriow* ἢ ποτε πᾶσι τροφὴν διέδωκε περισσήν,\nἘν το ἢ","t":"that bring no fulfilment. But through the house of David all will be accomplished.\nFor to him God himself gave the throne, placing it in his hand;\nand the messengers will sleep beneath his feet,\nthose who show the fires, and those who show the rivers,\nand those who keep the cities, and those who send the winds.\nBut a hard life will come upon many men,\nentering into souls and changing the minds of men.\nBut when from the root a new shoot puts forth its eyes,\n… which once gave abundant food to all,\n…","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.31 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-31)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.41":{"o":"“Ὁ καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀμφὶ *xoovors* ἔσται πλέον. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἄλλοι\nἄρξωνται Πέρσαι μαχίμων φῦλον, αὐτίχα δεινοί\"\nἔσσονται ϑάλαμοι νυμφῶν διὰ δύσνομα φῦλα.\nἕξει. γὰρ μήτηρ E0v υἱέα καὶ πόσιν\" υἱός\nμητέρα δηλήσει: ϑυγάτηρ δ᾽ ἐπὶ πατρὶ κλιϑεῖσα\nβάρβαρον ὑπνώσει τοῦτον νόμον\" ὕστερα δ᾽ αὐτοῖς\nἐχκλάμψει Ῥωμαῖος Ἄρης πολλῆς ἀπὸ λόγχης\"\nαἵματι δ᾽ ἀνδρομέῳφ πολλὴν χϑόνα φυρήσουσιν.\nἸπαλίης δὲ πρόμος τότε φεύξεται ἐκ δορὸς ἀλκῆς.\nλείψουσιν δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆς χρυσῷ κεχαραγμένον ὄμθος\n“ἐκπρομολόντα φέρον γε ἀεὶ σημεῖον ἀνάγκης.","t":"… and the things about … will be greater. But when others,\nthe Persians, a race of warriors, begin to rule, at once terrible\nwill be the bridal chambers because of lawless races.\nFor the mother will have her own son as husband; the son\nwill defile his mother; and the daughter, lying with her father,\nwill sleep according to this barbarian law. Afterwards upon them\nRoman Ares will flash out from many a spear,\nand they will soak much land in human blood.\nAnd the chief of Italy will then flee from the might of the spear.\nAnd they will leave upon the earth a shower engraved with gold,\ncoming forth, ever bearing a sign of necessity.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.41 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-41)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.51":{"o":"ἔσται μάν, ὅτε πᾶσα κακὴ καὶ δύσμορος οἰκτρῶς\nἸλιὰς ἐχπίεται τάφον, οὐ γάμον, ἔνϑα βαϑεῖα\nκλαύσουσιν νύμφαι, ὅτι δὴ ϑεὸν οὐκ ἐνόησαν,\nἀλλ᾽ αἰεὶ τυπάνοις “καὶ κρότοις τ᾽ ὃ ἦχον ἔδωκαν.\nμαντεύου, Κολοφών\" μέγα σοι κρέμαται φοβερὸν πῦρ.\nΘεσσαλίη δύσνυμφε, σὲ δ᾽ ὄψεται οὐχέτι γαῖα\nοὐδὲ FON πλεύσῃ δὲ μόνη φυγὰς ἠπείροιο.\nἙαὐτοῖς ἢ ὦ τλῆμον, σχύβαλον πολέμου λυγρὸν ἔσσῃ,\nἙὠ κυσὶ καὶ ποταμοῖς καὶ ᾿ δομφαίαισι πεσοῦσα.\nὦ τλῆμόν γε Κόρινϑε, σὺ δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ αὐτὴν βαρὺν Ἄρην","t":"There will come a time indeed when all evil and ill-fated Ilias, pitiably,\nwill drink out a tomb, not a marriage, where deeply\nthe brides will weep, because they did not perceive God,\nbut always gave forth noise with drums and clapping.\nProphesy, Colophon: a great and fearful fire hangs over you.\nThessaly, unhappy in marriage, the earth will no longer see you,\nnor …; but you alone will sail, a fugitive from the mainland.\n… O wretched one, you will be the grievous refuse of war,\n… fallen to dogs and rivers and swords.\nO wretched Corinth, about yourself grievous Ares","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.51 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-51)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.61":{"o":"δέξῃ, δειλαίη, καὶ ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἀπολεῖσϑε.\nΤύρε, σὺ δ᾽ ἡλίκα (δὴ) λήψῃ μόνη εὐσεβέων γάρ\nἀνδρῶν χηρεύουσ᾽ ὀλιγηφρενίῃσι διοίσει.\nἃ Συρίη κοίλη, Φοινίχων ὕστατον ἀνδρῶν,\nοἷς ἐπερευγομένη κεῖται Βηρυτιὰς ἅλμη,\nτλήμων, οὐχ ἔγνως τὸν σὸν ϑεόν, ὃν ποτ᾽ ἔλουσεν\n᾿Ιόρδανος ἐν “τριτάτοισι\" καὶ ἔπτατο πνεῦμα πελείῃ,\nὃς πρὶν καὶ γαίης τε καὶ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος\nαὐϑέντης γένετο λόγος πατρὶ πνεύματί 9 ayvo\nτὸ σάρκα τε δυσάμενος ταχὺς ἵπτατο πατρὸς ἐς οἴκους.","t":"you will receive, wretched one, and you will perish at one another's hands.\nTyre, how much you alone will receive! For, bereft of pious\nmen, you will be ruined by folly.\nO hollow Syria, last land of Phoenician men,\nagainst whom the Berytian brine lies belching,\nwretched one, you did not know your God, whom once\nthe Jordan washed in its third streams, and the Spirit flew as a dove,\nwho before was also the author of earth and of starry heaven,\nthe Word, with the Father and the holy Spirit,\nand having put on flesh, swiftly flew to his Father's house.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.61 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-61)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.71":{"o":"τρεῖς δ᾽ αὐτῷ πύργους μέγας Οὐρανὸς ἐστήριξεν,\nἐν τῷ δὴ ναίουσι ϑεοῦ νῦν μητέρες ἐσϑιλαί,\n’Eiris τ᾽ Eöoeßin τε Σεβασμοσύνη τε ποϑεινή,\nοὐ χρυσῷ χαίρουσαι ἢ ἀργύρῳ, ἀλλὰ σεβασμοῖς\nἀνθρώπων ϑυσίαις τε δικαιοτάτοις τε λογισμοῖς.\nϑύσεις δ᾽ ἀϑανάτῳ ϑεῷ μεγάλῳ ἀγερώχῳ\nοὐ χόνδρον τήξας λιβάνου πυρὶ οὐδὲ μαχαίρῃ\nἀρνειὸν κόψας λασιότριχα, ἀλλ᾿ ἅμα πᾶσιν,\nοἱ τεὸν αἷμα φέρουσι, λαβὼν *ayoinva πετεινά\nεὐξάμενος πέμψεις εἰς οὐρανὸν ὄμματα τείνας\"","t":"And three towers great Heaven set fast for him,\nin which now dwell the noble mothers of God,\nHope and Piety and longed-for Reverence,\nrejoicing not in gold or silver, but in the reverence\nof men, and in sacrifices and in most righteous thoughts.\nYou will sacrifice to the immortal God, great and lordly,\nnot melting a grain of frankincense in the fire, nor with a knife\nslaying a shaggy ram, but together with all\nwho bear your blood, taking wild birds,\nhaving prayed, you will send them to heaven, lifting up your eyes;","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.71 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-71)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.81":{"o":"ὕδωρ δὲ σπείσεις καϑαρῷ πυρὶ τοῖα βοήσας\"\n‚og σε λόγον γέννησε πατήρ \"πάτερ\" ὄρνιν ἀφῆκα,\nὀξὺν ἀπαγγελτῆρα λόγων λόγον, ὕδασιν ἁγνοῖς\nῥαίνων σὸν βάπτισμα, di οὗ πυρὸς ἐξεφαάνϑης. ---\nοὐδὲ ϑύρην κλείσεις, ὅτε τίς σοι ἐπήλυτος ἄλλος\nἥξει δευόμενος πενίην λιμόν τ᾽ ἀπερύχειν.\nἀλλὰ λαβὼν κεφαλὴν τοῦδ᾽ ἀνέρος ὕδατι ῥδάνας\nεὖξαι τρίς\" τῷ σῷ δὲ ϑεῷ μάλα τοῖα βόησον\"\nοὐκ ἔραμαι πλούτου\" λιτὸς δέ τε λιτὸν ἐδέγμην\"\nἄμφω δὸς σύ, πάτερ, σύ, χορηγητήρ, ἐπάκουσον.","t":"and you will pour water on pure fire, crying out thus:\n\"As the Father begot you, the Word, Father, I have released a bird,\na swift messenger of words, the Word, sprinkling with holy waters\nyour baptism, through which you were revealed from fire.\"\nNor will you shut the door when some other stranger\ncomes to you, needing to ward off poverty and hunger;\nbut taking this man's head and sprinkling it with water,\npray three times; and cry aloud to your God thus:\n\"I do not long for wealth; poor, I have received a poor man;\ngive both, Father; you, the provider, hear me.\"","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.81 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-81)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7.91":{"o":"εὐξαμένῳ δώσει 001° ἀπήγαγεν ἔχτοτε δ᾽ ἀνήρ\num ϑλίψῃς us, ϑεοῦ ἱερὸν σέβας ἠδὲ δίκαιον,\n*ayvov ἀδούλωτον περὶ γένναν ἐλεγχϑὲν . . .*\nτλήμονά μου κραδίην στῆσον, πάτερ' εἰς σὲ δέδορχα,\nεἰς σὲ τὸν ἄχραντον, τὸν μὴ χέρες ἐργάσσαντο.\nΣαρδώ, νῦν σὺ βαρεῖα, μεταλλάξῃ ἐς τέφρην.\nἔσσῃ δ᾽ οὐχέτι νῆσος, ὅταν δέκατος χρόνος ἔλϑη.\nζητήσουσι πλέοντες ἐν ὕδασιν οὐχέτ᾽ ἐοῦσαν,\nἀλκυόνες δ᾽ ἐπὶ σοὶ οἰκτρὸν γόον αἰάξουσιν.\nMovydovin τρηχεῖα, δυσέχβατε πυρσὲ ϑαλάσσης,","t":"To one who prays he will give … ; and thereafter the man …\n\"Do not afflict me, the holy and righteous reverence of God,\n… pure, unenslaved, … proved concerning birth …\nMake firm my wretched heart, Father; I have looked to you,\nto you the undefiled, whom hands did not make.\"\nSardinia, now heavy, you will change into ashes;\nyou will no longer be an island when the tenth time comes.\nSailors will seek you on the waters, but you will be no more,\nand halcyons will wail a piteous lament over you.\nRugged Mygdonia, hard to land on, beacon of the sea,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 7.91 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/7-91)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.1":{"o":"Ἐρχομένης μεγάλης ὀργῆς ἐπὶ κόσμον ἀπειϑῆ\nἔσχατον εἰς αἰῶνα ϑεοῦ μηνίματα φαίνω\nπᾶσι προφητεύουσα κατὰ πτόλιν ἀνϑρώποισιν.\nἐξότε δὴ πύργος τ᾽ ἔπεσεν γλῶσσαί T ἀνϑρώπων\nδ ἐς πολλὰς ϑνητῶν ἐμερίσϑησαν διαλέχτους,\nπρῶτα μὲν Αἰγύπτου βασιλήιον, εἶτα τὸ Περσῶν\nΜήδων Αἰϑιόπων τε καὶ ᾿ἀσσυρίης Βαβυλῶνος,\nεἶτα Μακηδονίης τῦφον μέγαν αὐχησάσης,\nπέμπτον δ᾽ εἶτ᾽ Ἰταλῶν κλεινὴ βασιλεία ἄϑεσμος\nὑστάτιον πᾶσιν δείξει κακὰ πολλὰ βροτοῖσιν","t":"As great wrath comes upon a disobedient world\nin the last age, I make known the wrath of God,\nprophesying to all men city by city.\nEver since the tower fell and the tongues of men\nwere divided into the many dialects of mortals,\nfirst the kingdom of Egypt, then that of the Persians,\nof the Medes, the Ethiopians, and Assyrian Babylon,\nthen that of Macedonia, which boasted great pride,\nthen fifth the famous and lawless kingdom of the Italians\nwill show, last of all, many evils to all mortals","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.1 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-1)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.101":{"o":"ἐξ ὕψους ἐλϑοῦσα κατοικήσεις ὑπὸ γαῖαν.\nνάφϑῃ κἀσφάλτῳ καὶ ϑείῳ καὶ πυρὶ πολλῷ\nἐξαφανισϑήσῃ καὶ ἔσῃ κόνις αἰώνεσσιν\nαἰϑομένη\" καὶ πᾶς ὁ βλέπων μυχηϑμὸν ἀκούσει\n1 πένϑιμον ἐξ ᾿Δίδαο μέγαν καὶ βρυγμὸν ὀδόντων\nκαὶ ταῖς σαῖς παλάμαις ἄϑεα στήϑη παταγοῦσαν.\nπᾶσιν ὁμοῦ νύξ ἐστιν ἴση τοῖς πλοῦτον ἔχουσιν\nκαὶ πτωχοῖς\" γυμνοὶ δ᾽ ἀπὸ γῆς, γυμνοὶ πάλιν ἐς γῆν\nἥξαντες λήγουσι βίου χρόνον ἐκχτελέσαντες.\nτο οὐδεὶς δοῦλος ἐχεῖ, οὐ κύριος, οὐδὲ τύραννος,","t":"having come down from on high, you will dwell beneath the earth.\nWith naphtha and asphalt and sulphur and much fire\nyou will vanish, and be dust for ages,\nburning; and everyone who looks will hear a great mournful bellowing\nfrom Hades, and gnashing of teeth,\nand you beating your godless breasts with your palms.\nFor all alike there is equal night, for those who have wealth\nand for the poor; naked from the earth, naked again into the earth\nthey come, and cease from life when they have completed their time.\nNo one is slave there, no lord, nor tyrant,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.101 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-101)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.11":{"o":"καὶ πάσης γαίης ἀνδρῶν μόχϑους δαπανήσει.\nἄξει δ᾽ ἀκμῆτας βασιλεῖς ἐϑνῶν ἐπὶ δυσμάς\nκαὶ ϑεσμοὺς ϑήσει λαοῖς καὶ navy ὑποτάξει.\nὀψὲ ϑεοῦ μύλοι *Y* ἀλέουσι τὸ λεπτὸν ἄλευρον.\nπῦρ τότε πάντ᾽ ὀλέσει καὶ λεπτὸν χοῦν ἀποδώσει\nὑψικόμων ὀρέων κορυφὰς καὶ σαρκὸς ἁπάσης.\nἀρχὴ πᾶσι κακῶν φιλοχρημοσύγνη καὶ ἄνοια.\nχρυσοῦ γὰρ δολίοιο καὶ ἀργυρίου πόϑος ἔσται\"\nοὐδὲν γὰρ τούτων ϑνητοὶ μεῖζον προέχριναν,\nοὐ φάος ἠελίου, οὐκ οὐρανόν, οὐδὲ ϑάλασσαν,","t":"and will consume the toils of men of all the earth.\nAnd it will lead the unwearied kings of the nations to the west,\nand lay down laws for peoples and subdue all things.\nLate do the mills of God grind the fine flour.\nThen fire will destroy all and render to fine dust\nthe peaks of lofty-crested mountains and all flesh.\nThe beginning of evils for all is love of money and folly.\nFor there will be a longing for deceitful gold and silver;\nfor mortals have preferred nothing greater than these,\nnot the light of the sun, not heaven, nor the sea,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.11 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-11)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.111":{"o":"οὐ βασιλεῖς, οὐχ ἡγεμόνες μᾶλα τῦφον» ἔχοντες,\nοὐ γνομικὸς ῥήτωρ, 00x ἄρχων χρήμασι κρίνων'\nοὐ ϑυσιῶν σπονδαῖς ἐπὶ βωμοῖς αἷμα χέουσιν᾽\nτύμπανον οὐχ ἠχεῖ, οὐ κύμβαλον...........-\nοὐχ αὐλὸς πολύτρητος, ἔχοντα φρενοβλάβον αὐδήν,\nοὐ σχολιοῦ σύριγμα φέρον μίμημα δράκοντος,\nοὐ σάλπιγξ πολέμων ἀγγέλτρια βαρβαρόφωνος\"\nοὐ κώμοις μεϑύοντες ἀϑέσμοις, οὐχὶ χορείαις\"\nοὐ φϑόγγος κιϑάρης, οὐ μηχανίη κακοεργός\"\nοὐχ ἔρις, οὐχ ὀργὴ πολυποίκιλος, οὐδὲ μάχαιρα","t":"no kings, no leaders with great pride,\nno orator full of maxims, no ruler judging for money;\nthey do not pour blood on altars with libations of sacrifices;\nno drum sounds, no cymbal …,\nno many-holed flute, with its voice that harms the mind,\nno piping that bears the likeness of the crooked serpent,\nno barbarous-voiced trumpet, messenger of wars;\nno drunkards at lawless revels, no dances;\nno sound of the lyre, no evil-working contrivance;\nno strife, no many-coloured anger, no sword","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.111 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-111)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.121":{"o":"ἔστι παρὰ φϑιμένοις, ἀλλ᾽ αἰὼν κοινὸς ἅπασιν.\nπαῖδες καὶ παίδων τούτου γενεὴ \"ἀσαλεύτων Ὁ\"\nὡς γὰρ ϑέσφατόν ἐστι περιπλομένοιο χρόνοιο,\nὁππόταν Αἰγύπτου βασιλεῖς τρὶς πέντε γένωνται.\nἔνϑεν ὅταν φοίνικος ἐπέλϑῃ πενταχρόνοιο\nμο Ὃᾷἥξει πορϑήσων λαῶν γένος, ἄκριτα φῦλα,\nἙβραίων ἔϑνος. τότ᾽ \"Aons ᾿άρεα προνομεύσει,\nῬωμαίων ὑπέροπλον ἀπειλὴν αὐτὸς ὀλέσσει.\nAstro {γὰρ) Ῥώμης ἀρχὴ τότε τηλεϑόωσα,\nἀρχαίη πολέεσσι περικτιόνεσσιν ἄνασσα.","t":"is there among the dead, but an age common to all.\nChildren, and the race of this one's children, unshaken …\nFor so it has been decreed as time revolves,\nwhen the kings of Egypt have become three times five.\nThen, when the phoenix's period of five comes,\nthere will come, to ravage the race of peoples, the tribes beyond judgment,\nthe nation of the Hebrews. Then Ares will plunder Ares,\nand will himself destroy the overweening threat of the Romans.\nFor then the flourishing rule of Rome will perish,\nthe ancient queen over many neighbouring cities.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.121 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-121)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.131":{"o":"Se ’ nm: ὃ ᾽ ‚\nοὐχέτι vırnosıe πέδον Ῥώμης ἐριϑήλου,\nς , 2 > , , ” \\ ”\nὁππόταν ἐξ Ασίης χρατέων ἔλϑῃ σὺν Aonı.\nταῦτα δὲ πάντ᾽ ἔρξας ἥξει κρηπισϑὲν ἐς ἄστυ.\nτρὶς δὲ τριηκοσίους καὶ τεσσαράχοντα καὶ ὀκτώ\nπληρώσεις λυχάβαντας, ὅταν σοι δύσμορος ἥξῃ","t":"No longer will the plain of fertile Rome be victorious,\nwhen from Asia the one who rules comes with Ares.\nAnd having done all these things he will come to the city, founded.\nThree times three hundred and forty and eight\nyears you will fulfil, when there comes upon you an ill-fated","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.131 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-131)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.141":{"o":"μοῖρα βιαξομένη τεὸν οὔνομα πληρώσασα.","t":"fate, overpowering you, having fulfilled your name.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.141 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-141)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.151":{"o":"οἴμοι ἐγὼ τριτάλαινα, πότ᾽ ὄψομαι ἦμαρ ἐκεῖνο\nἘσεῖό ποτε, Ῥώμη, πᾶσιν δὲ μάλιστα Λατίνοις;\nκώμαϊζ᾽, εἰ βούλει σύ, τὸν ἐν χρυφίαισι λοχείαις\n᾿Ασίδος ἐκ γαίης ἐπὶ Τρωικὸν ἀρμ᾽ ἐπιβάντα,\nx ” > Ὑ o x ,\nϑυμὸν ἔχοντ᾽ αἴϑωνος. ὅταν δ᾽ Ισϑμὸν διακόψῃ\nπαπταίνων, ἐπὶ πάντας ἰών, πέλαγος διαμείψας,\nκαὶ τότε ϑῆρα μέγαν μετελεύσεται αἷμα κελαινόν.\nτὸν δὲ λέοντ᾽ ἐδίωξε κύων ὀλέχοντα νομῆας.\nσκῆπτρα δ᾽ ἀφαιρήσουσι καὶ εἰς Aldao περήσει.\n. ἥξει καὶ Ῥοδίοις κακὸν ὕστατον, ἀλλὰ μέγιστον,","t":"Ah me, thrice-wretched, when shall I see that day\n… of you, Rome, and above all of all the Latins?\nRevel, if you will, with him who, from secret births\nin the land of Asia, mounted the Trojan chariot,\nhaving the spirit of a blazing one. But when he cuts through the Isthmus,\npeering about, going against all, having crossed the sea,\nthen dark blood will pursue the great beast.\nAnd the dog pursued the lion that destroys shepherds.\nAnd they will take away his sceptres, and he will pass into Hades.\nThere will come to the Rhodians too a last evil, but the greatest,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.151 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-151)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.161":{"o":"καὶ Θήβῃσι κακή γε μένει μετόπισϑεν ἅλωσις.\nΑἴγυπτος δ᾽ ἀπολεῖται ὑφ᾽ ἡγεμόνων κακότητος.\n[ὡς δὲ καὶ οἱ μετόπισϑ᾽ ἔφυγον βροτοὶ αἰπὸν 028900»,\nτρὶς μακαριστὸς ἔην καὶ τετράκις ὄλβιος ἀνήρ.\n16 ἔσται καὶ Ῥώμη ῥύμη καὶ Δῆλος ἄδηλος\nκαὶ “Σάμοε ἄμμος m ee\nὕστερον * αὖ καὶ ἔπειτά γε τοὺς Πέρσας καχὸν ἥξει\nἀνϑ᾽ ὑπερηφανίης, ἀπολεῖται ὕβρις ἅπασα.\nκαὶ τότε (ὃ) ἁγνὸς ἄναξ πάσης γῆς σκῆπτρα κρατήσει\nεἰς αἰῶνας ἅπαντας (0) τοὺς φϑιμένους ἀνεγείρας.","t":"and for Thebes too an evil capture awaits hereafter.\nAnd Egypt will perish through the wickedness of its rulers.\nRome will be a lane, and Delos invisible,\nand Samos sand … .\nAnd afterwards evil will come upon the Persians\nin return for their arrogance; all insolence will perish.\nAnd then the holy King will hold the sceptres of all the earth\nfor all ages, having raised the dead.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.161 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-161)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.171":{"o":"τρεῖς Ῥώμῃ Ὕψιστος ἄγοι οἰκτρῇ τότε μοίρῃ,\nπάντες δ᾽ ἄνϑρωποι μελάϑροις ἰδίοισιν ὀλοῦνται\"\nἀλλ᾽ οὐ μὴ πεισϑῶσιν, ὃ κεν πολὺ λώιον εἴη.\nἀλλ ὁπόταν δὴ πᾶσιν ἐπαυξήσῃ κακὸν ἦμαρ\nλιμοῦ καὶ λοιμοῦ δυσανασχέτου ἠδὲ κυδοιμοῦ,\nκαὶ τότ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ αὗτις κρείων ἔμπροσϑεν ὃ τλήμων\nσυγκαλέσας βουλὴν βουλεύσεται, ds ἀπολέσσει\nξηρὰ μὲν ἀνϑήσουσιν ὁμοῦ φύλλοισι φανέντα\"\nοὐράνιον δ᾽ ἔδαφος Ἐδείξει ἢ στερεᾷ ἐπὶ πέτρῃ\nὄμβρον τε φλογμόν Te πολύπνοιάν τ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν","t":"Three … the Most High would bring upon Rome then, with piteous fate,\nand all men will perish in their own houses;\nbut they will not be persuaded, which would be far better.\nBut when the evil day increases for all,\nof famine and of unbearable plague and of tumult,\nthen afterwards again the former wretched ruler,\nhaving called a council, will take counsel how he may destroy … .\nDry things will blossom, appearing together with leaves;\nand the floor of heaven … upon the solid rock\nrain and burning heat and great winds upon the earth","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.171 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-171)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.181":{"o":"καὶ σπορίμων πληϑὺν ἰῶν κατὰ γαῖαν ἅπασαν.\nἀλλὰ πάλιν πράξουσιν ἀναιδέα ϑυμὸν ἔχοντες,\nοὐ μήνιμα ϑεοῦ δειδιότες οὐδ᾽ ἀνϑρώπων,\nαἰδοίην προλιπόντες, ἀναιδείην ποϑέοντες,\nἀστασίῃσι τύραννοι ἁμαρτωλοί τε βίαιοι\nψεῦσται ἀπιστόφιλοι κακοπράγμονες οὐδὲν ἀληϑεῖς\nπιστολέται εὑρεσσίλογοι δύσφημα χέοντες\"\nοὐδέ σφιν πλούτου κόρος ἔσσεται ἀλλὰ τ ἀναιδῶς\nπλείονα συλλέξουσι\" τυραννωϑέντες ὀλοῦνται.\nἄστρα “πεσεῖται ἅπαντα ϑαλάσσης ἀντίπρφρα,","t":"and a multitude of blights on the crops over the whole earth.\nBut again they will act, having a shameless spirit,\nfearing neither the wrath of God nor that of men,\nhaving abandoned modesty, longing for shamelessness:\ntyrants in seditions, sinners and violent men,\nliars, lovers of faithlessness, evildoers, in nothing true,\ndestroyers of faith, inventors of words, pouring out blasphemies;\nnor will they have their fill of wealth, but shamelessly\nwill gather more; tyrannized, they will perish.\nAll the stars will fall, facing the sea,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.181 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-181)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.191":{"o":"πολλὰ μὲν ἑξῆς ἀστραῦ, καὶ ἀκτινόεντα κομήτην\nἄνϑρωποι καλέουσι τὸν ἀστέρα, σῆμα πόνοιο\nπολλοῦ ἐπερχομένου, πολέμου καὶ δηιοτῆτος.\nμή ποτ᾽ ἐγὼ ζῴην, ὅτε ἡ μιαρὰ βασιλεύσει,\nτ ἀλλὰ τότ᾽, οὐρανίη ὅταν ἡ χάρις ἐμβασιλεύσῃ,\nκαὶ ὁπόταν ἱερός ποτὲ παῖς ᾿δολοφῶν\" ἁπάντων\nἐξολέσῃ δεσμοῖς ὀλοόφρονα βυσσὸν ἀνοίγων,\nαἰφνίδιος δὲ βροτοὺς ξύλινος δόμος ἀμφικαλύψῃ.\nἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἡ δεκάτη γενεὴ δόμον Ἄιδος εἴσω,\nϑηλυτέρης μετέπειτα «μέγα κράτος\" ἢ καχὰ πολλά","t":"many in succession; and men call the star\nthe radiant comet, a sign of much toil\ncoming upon them, of war and slaughter.\nMay I not be alive when the polluted woman reigns,\nbut then, when the heavenly grace reigns,\nand when one day the holy child destroys … of all,\nopening the deadly abyss with bonds,\nand a wooden house suddenly covers mortals.\nBut when the tenth generation goes within the house of Hades,\nafterwards the great power of a woman; … many evils","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.191 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-191)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.201":{"o":"αὐξήσει ϑεὸς αὐτός, ὅταν βασιληίδα τιμήν\nστεψαμένη τετύχῃ\" σύμπαν δ᾽ ἔτος ᾿ἥπιος\" αἰών.\nἠέλιος [μὲν] αὐχμηρὰ τρέχων νυχτερινὰ φαίνει,\nλείψει δ᾽ ἄστρα πόλον\" πολλῇ δέ τε λαίλαπι ϑύων\nοοῦ γαῖαν ἐρημώσει\" νεχρῶν δ᾽ ἐπανάστασις ἔσται\"\nκαὶ χωλῶν δρόμος ὠκύτατος καὶ κωφὸς ἀκούσει\nκαὶ τυφλοὶ βλέψουσι, λαλήσουσ᾽ οὐ λαλέοντες,\nκαὶ κοινὸς πάντεσσι βίος καὶ πλοῦτος ἐσεῖται.\nγαῖα δ᾽ ἴση πάντων οὐ τείχεσιν οὐ περιφραγμοῖς\nδιαμεριζομένη καρπούς ποτε πλείονας οἴσει,","t":"God himself will increase, when she, crowned,\nhas obtained the royal honour; and the whole year a gentle age.\nThe sun, running a parched course, will shine by night,\nand the stars will leave the sky; and raging with a great whirlwind\nhe will make the earth desolate; and there will be a resurrection of the dead;\nand the lame will run most swiftly, and the deaf will hear,\nand the blind will see, and those who do not speak will speak,\nand life and wealth will be common to all.\nAnd the earth, equal for all, not divided by walls or fences,\nwill then bear more fruits,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.201 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-201)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.21":{"o":"οὐ γαῖαν πλατύνωτον, ὅϑεν φύουσιν ἅπαντα,\nοὐ τὸν πάντα διδόντα ϑεόν, γεννήτορα πάντων,\nοὐ πίστιν τούτων καὶ εὐσεβίην προέκχριναν.\nπηγὴ δυσσεβίης καὶ ἀταξίης προοδηγός,\nμηχανίη πολέμων, εἰρήνης ἐχϑρὰ ἀνία\nἐχϑραίνουσα τέχνοις γονέας καὶ τέχνα γονεῦσιν.\nκοὐδὲ γάμος δίχα χρυσοῦ ὅλως ποτὲ τίμιος ἔσται.\nγαῖά 8ϑ᾽ ὅρους ἕξει καὶ φρουροὺς πᾶσα ϑάλασσα\nπᾶσι μεριζομένη δολίως τοῖς χρυσὸν ἔχουσιν\"\n8 ὧἧς αἰῶσι ϑέλοντες ἔχειν πολυϑρέμμονα γαῖαν","t":"not the broad-backed earth, from which all things grow,\nnot God who gives all things, the begetter of all;\nnor have they preferred faith and piety to these.\nSource of impiety and leader of disorder,\ncontriver of wars, hateful grief of peace,\nmaking parents enemies to children and children to parents.\nNor will marriage ever be honoured at all without gold.\nAnd the earth will have boundaries, and every sea its guards,\ndivided deceitfully among all who have gold;\n… wishing to hold for ages the earth that nourishes many","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.21 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-21)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.211":{"o":"πηγὰς δὲ γλυχεροῦ οἴνου λευκοῦ τε γάλακτος\nκαὶ μέλιτος δώσει .......{{Ὸ᾿\nκαὶ *xoloıw* ἀϑανάτοιο BEOÖ.........\nἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἀλλάξῃ ϑεὸς καιροὺς .........\nχεῖμα ϑέρος ποιῶν, τότε ϑέσφατα {πάντα τελεῖται).\nἀλλ᾽ ὅτε κόσμος ὁλωλεν..... ER.\nἹδρώσει δὲ χϑών, κρίσεως σημεῖον ὅτ᾽ ἔσται.\nἭξει δ᾽ οὐρανόϑεν βασιλεὺς αἰῶσιν ὁ μέλλων,\nΣάρχα παρὼν πᾶσαν κρῖναι καὶ κόσμον ἅπαντα.\nὌψονται δὲ ϑεὸν μέροπες πιστοὶ καὶ ἄπιστοι","t":"and will give springs of sweet wine and of white milk\nand of honey …\nand … of the immortal God … .\nBut when God changes the seasons …,\nmaking winter summer, then all the oracles will be fulfilled.\nBut when the world has perished … .\nThe earth will sweat, when the sign of judgment comes.\nAnd from heaven will come the King who is to be for ages,\npresent to judge all flesh and the whole world.\nAnd mortals, faithful and faithless, will see God,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.211 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-211)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.231":{"o":"Yıpıorov μετὰ τῶν ἁγίων ἐπὶ τέρμα χρόνοιο.\nΣαρκοφόρων δ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ψυχὰς ἐπὶ βήματι κρίνει,\nΧέρσος ὅταν ποτὲ κόσμος ὅλος καὶ ἄκανϑα γένηται. -\nῬίψουσιν δ᾽ εἴδωλα βροτοὶ καὶ πλοῦτον ἅπαντα.\nἘχκαύσει δὲ τὸ πῦρ γῆν οὐρανὸν ἠδὲ ϑάλασσαν\n᾿Ἰχνεῦον, ῥήξει τε πύλας εἱρκτῆς ᾿Αίδαο.\nΣὰρξ τότε πᾶσα νεχρῶν ἐς ἐλευϑέριον φάος ἥξει\nΤῶν ἁγίων\" ἀνόμους δὲ τὸ πῦρ αἰῶσιν ἐλέγξει.\nὉππόσα τις πράξας ἔλαϑεν, τότε πάντα λαλήσει\"","t":"the Most High, with the saints at the end of time.\nAnd he will judge at his tribunal the souls of flesh-bearing men,\nwhen at last the whole world becomes waste land and thorns.\nAnd mortals will cast away their idols and all their wealth.\nAnd the fire will burn up earth, heaven, and sea,\ntracking them down, and will break the gates of the prison of Hades.\nThen all the flesh of the dead will come into the free light,\nthe flesh of the saints; but the lawless the fire will convict for ages.\nWhatever deeds anyone did in secret, he will then tell them all;","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.231 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-231)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.241":{"o":"Στιήϑεα γὰρ ζοφόεντα ϑεὸς φωστῆρσιν ἀνοίξει.\nΘρῆνος δ᾽ ἐκ πάντων ἔσται καὶ βρυγμὸς ὀδόντων.\nξύλον ἐν πιστοῖς, τὸ κέρας τὸ nodovuevor ἔσται,\nἘχλείψει σέλας ἠελίου ἄστρων τε χορεῖαι.\n᾿νδρῶν εὐσεβέων ζωή, πρόσχομμα δὲ κόσμου,\nΟὐρανὸν εἱλίξει\" μήνης δέ τε φέγγος ὀλεῖται.\nὝδασι φωτίζον κλητοὺς ἐν δώδεκα πηγαῖς\"\nὙψώσει δὲ φάραγγας, ὀλεῖ δ᾽ ὑψώματα βουνῶν,\nῬάβδος ποιμαίνουσα σιδηρείη 7ε κρατήσει.\nῬεύσει δ᾽ οὐρανόϑεν ποταμὸς πυρὸς ἠδὲ ϑεείου.\nΟὗτος ὁ νῦν προγραφεὶς ἐν «ἀκροστιχίοις ϑεὸς ἡμῶν\nΣῆμα δέ τοι τότε πᾶσι βροτοῖς, σφρηγὶς ἐπίσημος\nΣωτὴρ ἀϑάνατος βασιλεύς, ὃ παϑὼν ἕνεχ ἡμῶν.","t":"For God will open dark hearts to the lights.\nAnd there will be lamentation from all, and gnashing of teeth.\nThe brightness of the sun will fail, and the dances of the stars.\nHe will roll up the heaven; and the light of the moon will perish.\nHe will raise up the ravines, and destroy the heights of the hills.\n…\nAnd a river of fire and of sulphur will flow from heaven.\nAnd then there will be a sign for all mortals, a distinguished seal:\nthe wood among the faithful, the horn that is longed for,\nthe life of pious men, but a stumbling block to the world,\nenlightening the called with water in twelve springs;\nan iron rod that shepherds will prevail.\nThis is our God, now set forth in the acrostic,\nthe Savior, the immortal King, who suffered for our sake.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.241 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-241)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.251":{"o":"ὃν Μωσῆς ἐτύπωσε προτείνας ὠλένας ayvas\nνικῶν τὸν ᾿“μαλὴκ πίστει, ἵνα λαὸς ἐπιγνῷ\nἐκλεχτὸν παρὰ πατρὶ ϑεῷ καὶ τίμιον εἶναι\nτὴν ῥάβδον Δαυὶδ καὶ τὸν λίϑον, ὅνπερ ὑπέστη,\nεἰς ὃν ὃ πιστεύσας ζωὴν αἰώνιον ἕξει.\nοὐδὲ ‚rag ἐν δόξῃ, ἀλλ᾿ ὡς βροτὸς εἰς κτίσιν ἥξει\nοἰκτρὸς ἄτιμος ἄμορφος, ἵν᾽ οἰκτροῖς ἐλπίδα δώσει\"\nκαὶ φϑαρτῇ σαρκὶ μορφὴν καὶ πίστιν ἀπίστοις\nοὐράνιον δώσει καὶ μορφώσει τὸν ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς\nἄνϑρωπον πλασϑέντα ϑεοῦ παλάμαις ἁγίαισιν,","t":"whom Moses prefigured, stretching out his holy arms,\nconquering Amalek by faith, so that the people might know\nthat chosen and precious with God the Father\nis the rod of David and the stone that he promised,\nin whom whoever believes will have eternal life.\nFor he will come into creation not in glory, but as a mortal,\npitiable, without honour, without form, so that he may give hope to the pitiable;\nand he will give form to corruptible flesh and heavenly faith to the faithless,\nand will form anew the man fashioned from the beginning\nby the holy hands of God,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.251 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-251)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.261":{"o":"ὃν τ᾽ ἐπλάνησεν ὄφις δολίως ἐπὶ μοῖραν ἀπελϑεῖν\nτοῦ ϑανάτου γνῶσίν τε λαβεῖν ἀγαϑοῦ τε κακοῦ τε,\nὥστε ϑεὸν προλιπόντα λατρεύειν ἤϑεσι ϑνητοῖς.\nαὐτὸν γὰρ πρώτιστα λαβὼν σύμβουλον ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς\nεἶπεν ὁ παντοκράτωρ' “ποιήσωμεν, τέκνον, ἄμφω\nεἰκόνος ἡμετέρης ἀπομαξάμενοι βροτὰ φῦλα\"\nνῦν μὲν ἐγὼ χερσίν, σὺ δ᾽ ἔ ἔπειτα λόγῳ ϑεραπεύσεις\nμορφὴν ἡμετέρην, ἵνα κοινὸν ἀνάστεμα δῶμεν»\nγνώμης οὖν ταύτης μεμνημένος ἐς κτίσιν ἥξει\nἀντίτυπον μίμημα φέρων εἰς παρϑένον ἁγνήν,","t":"whom the serpent deceitfully led astray to go to the lot\nof death and to take knowledge of good and evil,\nso that, forsaking God, he served mortal ways.\nFor having taken him first of all as counsellor from the beginning,\nthe Almighty said: \"Child, let us both make\nmortal races, copying them from our image;\nnow I with my hands, and you afterwards with the word, will tend\nour form, so that we may give a common raising-up.\"\nMindful, then, of this purpose, he will come into creation,\nbearing a corresponding likeness into a holy virgin,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.261 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-261)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.271":{"o":"ὕδατι φωτίζων διὰ πρεσβυτέρων ἅμα χειρῶν,\nπάντα λόγῳ πράσσων, πᾶσαν δὲ νόσον ϑεραπεύων.\nτοὺς ἀνέμους παύσειε λόγῳ, στορέσει δὲ ϑάλασσαν\nμαινομένην ποσὶν εἰρήνης πίστει τε πατήσας.\n3 ἐκχ δ᾽ ἄρτων ἅμα πέντε καὶ ἰχϑύος εἰναλίοιο\nἀνδρῶν χιλιάδας ἐν ἐρήμῳ πέντε κορέσσει,\nκαὶ τὰ περισσεύοντα λαβὼν τότε κλάσματα πάντα\nδώδεκα πληρώσει κοφίνους εἰς ἐλπίδα λαῶν.\nκαὶ καλέσει ψυχὰς μακάρων, οἰκτροὺς δ᾽ ἀγαπήσει,\nοἱ χαλὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ χλευαζόμενοι πρήξουσιν","t":"enlightening with water through the hands of elders together,\ndoing all things by a word, and healing every disease.\nHe would stop the winds by a word, and calm the raging sea,\ntreading it with feet of peace and with faith.\nAnd from five loaves together and a fish of the sea\nhe will satisfy five thousand men in the wilderness,\nand then, taking all the fragments left over,\nhe will fill twelve baskets for the hope of the peoples.\nAnd he will call the souls of the blessed, and love the pitiable,\nwho, mocked, will do good in return for evil,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.271 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-271)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.281":{"o":"τυπτόμενοι μαστιζόμενοι πενίην ποϑέοντες.\nπάντα νοῶν καὶ πάντα βλέπων καὶ πάντ᾽ ἐπακούων\nσπλάγχνα κατοπτεύσει καὶ γυμνώσει πρὸς ἔλεγχον\"\nαὐτὸς γὰρ πάντων ἀχοὴ καὶ νοῦς καὶ ὅρασις\nκαὶ λόγος ὃ κτίζων μορφᾶς, ᾧ πάνϑ' ὑπακούει,\nκαὶ νέχυας σῴζων, πᾶσαν δὲ νόσον ϑεραπεύων.\nεἰς ἀνόμων χεῖρας καὶ ἀπίστων ὕστερον ἥξει,\nδώσουσιν δὲ ϑεῷ ῥαπίσματα χερσὶν ἀνάγνοις\nκαὶ στόμασιν μιαροῖς ἐμπτύσματα φαρμαχόεντα.\nδώσει δ᾽ εἰς μάστιγας ἀναπλώσας τότε νῶτον\"","t":"beaten, scourged, longing for poverty.\nPerceiving all, seeing all, and hearing all,\nhe will look into the inward parts and lay them bare for conviction;\nfor he himself is the hearing and mind and sight of all,\nand the Word who creates forms, whom all things obey,\nsaving the dead and healing every disease.\nLater he will come into the hands of the lawless and faithless,\nand they will give God blows with unholy hands\nand poisonous spittings with polluted mouths.\nAnd he will then spread out and give his back to the scourges;","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.281 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-281)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.291":{"o":"[αὐτὸς γὰρ κόσμῳ παραδώσει, παρϑένον ἁγνήν.\nκαὶ κολαφιζόμενος σιγήσει, μή τις ἐπιγνῷ,\nτίς τίνος ὧν πόϑεν ἤλϑεν, ἵνα φϑιμένοισι λαλήσει.\nκαὶ στέφανον φορέσει τὸν axavdıvov' ἐκ γὰρ ἀχανϑῶν\nτὸ στέφος ἐχλεχτῶν αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἄγαλμα.\nπλευρὰς νύξουσιν καλάμῳ διὰ τὸν νόμον αὐτῶν\"\nἐκ καλάμων γὰρ σειομένων ὑπὸ πνεύματος *aALov*\nπρὸς χρίματα ἔψυχῆς\" ἐτράφη ὀργῆς καὶ ἀμοιβῆς.\nἀλλ᾽ ὅτε ταῦτά γε πάντα τελειωϑῇ ἅπερ εἶπον.\n80) εἰς αὐτὸν τότε πᾶς λύεται νόμος, ὅστις ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς","t":"And, struck with fists, he will keep silent, so that no one may know\nwho he is, whose son, and whence he came, so that he may speak to the dead.\nAnd he will wear the crown of thorns; for of thorns\nthe crown of the elect is an eternal glory.\nThey will pierce his sides with a reed because of their law;\nfor from reeds shaken by the wind of another …\n… was nourished, of wrath and of requital.\nBut when all these things that I have spoken are fulfilled,\nthen every law is dissolved in him, which from the beginning","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.291 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-291)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.301":{"o":"δόγμασιν ἀνϑρώποις ἐδόϑη διὰ λαὸν ἀπειϑῆ.\nἐχπετάσει χεῖρας καὶ κόσμον ἅπαντα μετρήσει.\nεἰς δὲ τὸ βρῶμα χολὴν καὶ πιεῖν ὄξος ἔδωκαν\"\nτῆς ἀφιλοξενίης ταύτην δείξουσι τράπεζαν.\n8ι᾽. γγαοῦ δὲ σχισϑῇ τὸ πέτασμα καὶ ἤματι μέσσῳ\nνὺξ ἔσται σχοτόεσσα πελώριος ἐν τρισὶν ὥραις.\nοὐχέτι γὰρ χρυφίῳ τε νόμῳ ναῷ τε λατρεύειν\nφαντασίαις κόσμου κεκαλυμμένον αὖτις ἐδείχϑη","t":"was given to men in decrees because of a disobedient people.\nHe will stretch out his hands and measure the whole world.\nAnd for food they gave gall, and vinegar to drink;\nthis is the table of inhospitality that they will show.\nAnd the veil of the temple will be split, and at midday\nthere will be dark and monstrous night for three hours.\nFor no longer is it right to worship with a secret law and temple,\nthat which, hidden by the phantoms of the world, was shown again","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.301 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-301)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.31":{"o":"πορϑήσουσι πένητας, ἵν αὐτοὶ πλείονα χῶρον\nπροσπορίσαντες ἀλαζονίῃ καταδουλώσωσιν.\nκεὶ μὴ γαῖα πέλωρος ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος\nτὸν ϑρόνον εἶχε μακρήν, οὐχ ἦν ἴσον ἀνδράσι φέγγος,\nἀλλ᾽ ἀγοραζόμενον χρυσῷ πλουτοῦσιν ὑπῆρχεν\nκαὶ πτωχοῖς αἰῶν᾽ ἕτερον ϑεὸς ἡτοίμαζεν.\nἥξει σοί ποτ᾽ ἄνωϑεν ἴση, ὑψαύχενε Ῥώμη,\nοὐράνιος πληγὴ καὶ κάμψεις αὐχένα πρώτη\nκἀξεδαφισϑήσῃ καὶ πῦρ σε ὅλην δαπανήσει\nκεκλιμένην ἐδάφεσσιν Eols, καὶ πλοῦτος ὀλεῖται","t":"they will plunder the poor, so that, acquiring more land for themselves,\nthey may enslave them in their arrogance.\nAnd if the huge earth did not hold its throne far off from the starry heaven,\nthe light would not be equal for men,\nbut would be bought with gold and belong to the rich,\nand God would have prepared another age for the poor.\nThere will come upon you one day from above, high-necked Rome,\nan equal heavenly stroke, and you will be the first to bend your neck,\nand you will be razed to the ground, and fire will consume you wholly,\nlaid low upon your foundations, and your wealth will perish,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.31 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-31)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.311":{"o":"αὐϑέντου καταβάντος ἐπὶ χϑονὸς ἀέναοιο.\n:-. ἥξει δ᾽ εἰς ᾿Αίδην ἀγγέλλων ἐλπίδα πᾶσιν\nτοῖς ἁγίοις, τέλος αἰώνων καὶ ἔσχατον ἦμαρ,\nκαὶ ϑανάτου μοῖραν τελέσει τρίτον ἤμαρ ὑπνώσας\"\nκαὶ τότ᾽ ἀπὸ φϑιμένων ἀναλύσας εἰς φάος ἥξει\nἀϑανάτου πηγῆς ἀπολουσάμενος ὑδάτεσσιν\nπρῶτος ἀναστάσεως κλητοῖς ἀρχὴν ὑποδείξας,\nτὰς πρότερον κακίας, ἵνα γεννηϑέντες ἄνωϑεν\nμηκέτι δουλεύσωσιν ἀϑέσμοις ἤϑεσι κόσμου.\nπρῶτα δὲ τοῖς ἰδίοις φανερῶς τότε κύριος ὀφϑῇ\nσάρχινος, ὡς πάρος ἦν, χερσίν τε ποσίν τ᾽ ἐπιδείξει\nτέσσαρα τοῖς ἰδίοις ἴχνη πηχϑέντα μέλεσσιν,","t":"when the Master came down upon the everlasting earth.\nAnd he will come to Hades, announcing hope to all\nthe saints, the end of the ages and the last day,\nand he will fulfil the lot of death, having slept until the third day;\nand then, released from the dead, he will come to the light,\nhaving washed himself in the waters of the immortal spring,\nthe first to show the called the beginning of resurrection,\n[washing away] their former evils, so that, born from above,\nthey may no longer serve the lawless ways of the world.\nAnd then first the Lord will be seen openly by his own,\nin the flesh as he was before, and he will show in his hands and feet\nto his own the four marks fixed in his limbs,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.311 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-311)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.321":{"o":"ἀντολίην TE δύσιν τὲ μεσημβρίην τε καὶ ἄρχτον᾽\nτόσσαι γὰρ κόσμου βασιληίδες ἐχτελέσουσι»\nπρᾶξιν τὴν ἀϑέμιστον ἐπίψογον εἰς τύπον ἡμῶν.\nχαῖρ᾽, ἁγνὴ ϑύγατερ Σιών, TI πολλὰ παϑοῦσα᾽᾿\nαὐτός σου βασιλεὺς ἐπιβὰς ἐπὶ πῶλον ἐσάγει\nἔπρᾶος πᾶσι φανείς, ἵνα Too) ζυγὸν ἡμῶν\"\nδοῦλον δυσβάστακτον ἐπ᾿ αὐχένι κείμενον ἄρῃ\nκαὶ ϑεσμοὺς ἀϑέους λύσῃ δεσμούς τε βιαίους.\nαὐτόν σου γίνωσκε ϑεὸν ϑεοῦ υἱὸν ἐόντα\"\nτοῦτον δοξάζουσα καὶ ἐν στέρνοισιν ἔχουσα","t":"east and west and south and north;\nfor so many royal powers of the world will accomplish\nthe lawless and blameworthy deed, as a type for us.\nRejoice, holy daughter of Zion, who have suffered much;\nyour King himself, mounted on a colt, comes in,\nappearing gentle to all, so that he may lift our yoke,\nslavish and hard to bear, that lies upon our neck,\nand undo godless ordinances and violent bonds.\nKnow him as your God, being the Son of God;\nglorify him and hold him in your breast,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.321 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-321)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.331":{"o":"&x ψυχῆς ἀγάπα καὶ τοὔνομα βάστασον αὐτοῦ.\nτοὺς “προτέρους δ᾽ ἀπόϑου καὶ λοῦσον ἀφ᾽ αἵματος αὐτοῦ\"\nοὐ γὰρ σαῖς οἴμαις ἱλάσκεται οὐδὲ λιταῖσιν,\nοὐ ϑυσίαις προσέχει φϑαρταῖς ἄφϑαρτος ὑπάρχων\"\nHAAN ὕμνον στομάτων συνετῶν τότε ᾿ἐκπροφέροντες ἢ\nγνῶϑιε, τίς ἔσϑ᾽ οὗτος, καὶ τὸν γενετῆρα τότ᾽ ὄψει.\nτὸ: *\nχηρεύσει τότε πάντα χρόνῳ στοιχεῖα τὰ κόσμου,\nἀὴρ γαῖα ϑάλασσα φάος πυρὸς αἰϑομένοιο\"\nκαὶ πόλος οὐράνιος καὶ νὺξ καὶ ἤματα πάντα","t":"love him from your soul, and bear his name.\nPut away your former things, and wash yourself with his blood;\nfor he is not appeased by your songs or by your prayers,\nnor does he heed corruptible sacrifices, since he is incorruptible;\nbut, bringing forth then the hymn of understanding mouths,\nknow who this is, and then you will see the Begetter.\n…\nThen all the elements of the world will be bereaved in time,\nair, earth, sea, the light of blazing fire,\nand the vault of heaven, and night, and all the days","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.331 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-331)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.341":{"o":"εἰς ἕν συρρήξουσι͵ καὶ εἰς μορφὴν πανέρημον.\nἄστρα γὰρ οὐρανόϑεν φωστήρων πάντα πεσεῖται.\nκοὐχέτι δὴ πτήσονται ἐπ᾽ ἀέρος εὔπτεροι ὄρνεις\nοὐδὲ βάσις γαίης\" ϑῆρες γὰρ ἅπαντες ὀλοῦνται.\nκοὐκ ἀνδρῶν φωναί, οὐ ϑηρῶν, οὐ πετεηνῶν.\nκόσμος ἄτακτος ἐὼν οὐ χρήσιμον ἦχον ἀκούσει\"\nἠχήσει δὲ βαϑὺς πόντος μέγαν ἦχον ἀπειλῆς\nζῷά τε νηχτὰ τρέμοντα ϑαλάσσης πᾶντα ϑανεῖται\"\nκαὶ ναῦς φόρτον ἔχουσ᾽ ἐπὶ κύμασιν οὐχέτι πλεύσει.\nμυχήσει δὲ χϑὼν αἱμασσομένη πολέμοισιν\"\nπᾶσαι δ᾽ ἀνϑρώπων ψυχαὶ βρύξουσιν ὀδοῦσιν","t":"will crash together into one, into a form wholly desolate.\nFor all the stars of the luminaries will fall from heaven.\nAnd no longer will well-winged birds fly in the air,\nnor will there be any treading of the earth; for all beasts will perish.\nNo voices of men, nor of beasts, nor of birds.\nThe world, being without order, will hear no useful sound;\nbut the deep sea will echo a great sound of threat,\nand all the swimming creatures of the sea, trembling, will die;\nand no ship with cargo will sail on the waves any longer.\nAnd the earth, bloodied by wars, will bellow;\nand all the souls of men will gnash their teeth","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.341 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-341)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.351":{"o":"[τῶν ἀνόμων “ψυχῶν ὀλολυγμοῖσίν τε φόβῳ τε,\nτηκόμεναι δίψει λιμῷ λοιμῷ τε φόνοις τε\nκαὶ καλέσουσι καλὸν τὸ ϑανεῖν καὶ φεύξετ᾽ ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν\"\nοὐχέτι γὰρ ϑάνατος κείνους, οὐ νὺξ ἀναπαύσει\"\nπολλὰ δ' ἐρωτήσουσι μάτην. ϑεὸν ὑψιμέδοντα,\nκαὶ τότ᾽ ἀποστρέψει φανερῶς. τὸ πρόσωπον ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν.\nἑπτὰ γὰρ αἰώνων μετανοίας ἤματ᾽ ἔδωκεν\nἀνδράσι πλαζομένοις διὰ χειρῶν παρϑένου ἁγνῆς.\nαὐτός μοι τάδε πάντα ϑεὸς vom ἐγκατέδειξεν\n8.0 καὶ de ἐμοῦ στόματος τὰ λελεγμένα πάντα τελέσσει\"","t":"wasting away with thirst, hunger, plague, and slaughter,\nand they will call death good, and it will flee from them;\nfor no longer will death or night give them rest.\nAnd they will ask many things in vain of God who rules on high,\nand then he will openly turn his face away from them.\nFor he gave seven ages of days for repentance\nto wandering men, through the hands of a holy virgin.\nGod himself showed me all these things in my mind,\nand he will fulfil all that has been spoken through my mouth.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.351 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-351)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.361":{"o":"Οἶδα δ᾽ ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ᾽ ἀριϑμὸν καὶ μέτρα ϑαλάσοσης,\nοἶδα μυχοὺς γαίης καὶ Τάρταρον ἠερόεντα,\nοἷδ᾽ ἀριϑμοὺς ἄστρων καὶ δένδρεα καὶ πόσα φῦλα\nτετραπόδων νηχτῶν τε καὶ ὀρνίϑων πετεηνῶν\nκαὶ μερόπων ὄντων τε καὶ ἐσσομένων νεκύων τε\"\nαὐτὸς γὰρ μορφὰς καὶ νοῦν ἀνδρῶν ἐτύπωσα,\nκαὶ λόγον ὀρϑὸν ἔδωκα ἐπιστήμην τ᾽ ἐδίδαξα,\nὀφϑαλμοὺς ὁ πλάσας καὶ ὦτα, βλέπων καὶ ἀκούων\nκαὶ πᾶν ἐνθύμημα νοῶν καὶ πᾶσι συνίστωρ\nἐντὸς ἐὼν σιγῶ καὶ ὕστερον αὐτὸς ἐλέγξω","t":"I know the number of the sand and the measures of the sea;\nI know the recesses of the earth and murky Tartarus;\nI know the numbers of the stars, and the trees, and how many races\nof four-footed beasts and of swimming creatures and of winged birds,\nand of mortals, living and yet to be, and of the dead;\nfor I myself formed the shapes and the mind of men,\nand gave them right reason and taught them knowledge;\nI who fashioned eyes and ears, seeing and hearing,\nand perceiving every thought, and witness of all,\nbeing within, I keep silent, and afterwards I myself will convict","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.361 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-361)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.371":{"o":"ἱκάχπράξων SS ὅσσα λαϑών γε βροτῶν τις ἔπραξεν,\nἘξλϑὼν καὶ ἐπὶ βῆμα ϑεοῦ ϑνητοῖσι λαλήσων.)\"\nκαὶ κωφοῦ ξυνίημι καὶ οὐ λαλέοντος ἀκούω\nκαὶ πόσον ἐστὶ τὸ πᾶν ἀπὸ γῆς εἰς οὐρανὸν ὕψος,\n8τὸ᾽ ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος οἶδα, ὃς οὐρανὸν ἔχτισα καὶ γῆν.\n[πάντα γὰρ ἐξ αὐτοῦ, τὰ an’ ἀρχῆς εἰς τέλος οἶδε!\nμοῦνος γὰρ ϑεός εἰμι καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ϑεὸς ἄλλος.\nεἰκόνα ϑεσπίζουσιν ἐμὴν πλασϑεῖσαν ἀφ᾽ ὕλης,\nχερσί τε μορφώσαντες ἕαῖς εἴδωλον ἄναυδον\n880. δοξάζουσι λιταῖς καὶ ϑρησκχείῃσιν avayvoıc.","t":"… whatever any mortal did in secret,\ncoming even to the tribunal of God to speak to mortals.\nAnd I understand the mute, and hear the one who does not speak,\nand I know how great is the whole height from earth to heaven;\nI know the beginning and the end, I who created heaven and earth.\nFor I alone am God, and there is no other god.\nThey make oracles of an image of me fashioned from matter,\nand, having shaped with their own hands a voiceless idol,\nthey glorify it with prayers and unholy worship.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.371 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-371)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.381":{"o":"τὸν κτίστην προλιπόντες ἀσελγείαις ἐλάτρευσαν\nπάντες δ᾽ αὐτοῦ\" ἔχοντες ἀχρήστοις δῶρα διδοῦσιν\nἘχαὶ ὡς ἐμὰς\" τιμὰς τάδε χρήσιμα πάντα δοχοῦσιν\nϑοίνῃ κγνισσοῦντες, ὡς τοῖς ἰδίοις νεκύεσσιν.\n88. σάρχας γὰρ καίουσι καὶ ὀστέα μυελόεντα\nϑύοντες βωμοῖς καὶ δαίμοσιν αἷμα χέουσιν\nκαὶ λύχνους ἅπτουσιν ἐμοὶ τῷ φῶτα διδόντι,\nχὼς διψῶντι ϑεῷ ϑνητοὶ σπένδουσι τὸν οἶνον\nεἰς οὐδὲν μεϑύοντες ἐπ᾿ εἰδώλοισιν ἀχρήστοις.\nοὐ χρήζω ϑυσίης ἢ σπονδῆς ὑμετέρηφιν,","t":"Forsaking the Creator, they served in licentiousness;\nand all of them … give gifts to useless things,\nand think all these things useful, as honours to me,\nmaking feasts savoury with burnt fat, as to their own dead.\nFor they burn flesh and marrowy bones,\nsacrificing on altars, and pour out blood to demons,\nand light lamps for me, who give the light,\nand as to a thirsty god mortals pour out wine,\ngetting drunk for nothing over useless idols.\nI have no need of your sacrifice or libation,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.381 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-381)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.391":{"o":"οὐ “κνίσσης μιαρῆς, οὐχ αἵματος ἐχϑίστοιο.\nταῦτα γὰρ ἐς μνήμην βασιλήων ἠδὲ τυράννων\nδαίμοσι ποιήσουσι νεχροῖς, ος οὐρανίοισιν,\nϑρησχείαν ἄϑεον καὶ ὀλέϑριον ἐχτελέοντες.\nκαὶ καλέουσι ϑεοὺς ἄϑεοι τὰς εἰχόνας αὐτῶν\nτὸν κτίστην προλιπόντες, ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἐλπίδα πᾶσαν\nκαὶ ζωὴν νομίσαντες ἔχειν, κωφοῖς καὶ ἀναύδοις\nἐς τὸ κακὸν πιστοὶ ἀγαϑὸν τέλος ἀγνοιοῦσιν.\nαὐτὸς ὁδοὺς προέϑηκα δύο, ζωῆς ϑανάτου τε,\nκαὶ γνώμῃ προέϑηκ᾽ ἀγαϑὴν ζοὴν προελέσϑαι","t":"nor of polluted savour, nor of most hateful blood.\nFor these things they will do in memory of kings and tyrants,\nto dead demons, as to heavenly beings,\nperforming a godless and destructive worship.\nAnd the godless call their images gods,\nforsaking the Creator, thinking to have from them all hope\nand life, trusting in the deaf and voiceless\nfor evil, ignorant of a good end.\nI myself set before them two ways, of life and of death,\nand set it before their judgment to choose the good life;","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.391 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-391)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.401":{"o":"αὐτοὶ δ᾽ ἐς ϑάνατον καὶ πῦρ αἰώνιον ἧξαν.\nεἰκών ἐστ᾽ ἄνϑρωπος ἐμὴ λόγον 0090» ἔχουσα\nτούτῳ ϑὲς καϑαρὰν καὶ ἀναίμακτον σὺ τράπεζαν\nπληρώσας ἀγαϑῶν καὶ δὸς πεινῶντι τὸν ἄρτον\n406 καὶ διψῶντι ποτὸν καὶ εἵματα σώματι γυμνῷ\nἐκ μόχϑων ἰδίων πορίσας ἁγναῖς παλάμῃσιν.\nϑλιβόμενον κτῆσαι καὶ τῷ κάμνοντι παράστα\nκαὶ ζῶσαν ϑυσίαν ἐμοὶ τῷ ζῶντι πόριζε,\nσπείρων νῦν ἐς ὕδωρ, ἵνα σοι κἀγώ ποτε δώσω\nκαρποὺς ἀϑανάτους, καὶ φῶς αἰώνιον ἕξεις","t":"but they themselves rushed to death and eternal fire.\nMan is my image, possessing right reason.\nFor him set a pure and bloodless table,\nfilling it with good things, and give bread to the hungry,\nand drink to the thirsty, and garments to the naked body,\nproviding them from your own labours with holy hands.\nTake the afflicted to yourself, and stand by the weary,\nand offer a living sacrifice to me, the living one,\nsowing now upon the water, so that I too may one day give you\nimmortal fruits, and you will have eternal light","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.401 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-401)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.41":{"o":"καὶ σὰ ϑέμειλα λύκοι καὶ ἀλώπεκες οἰκήσουσιν.\nκαὶ τότ᾽ ἔσῃ πανέρημος ὅλως, ὡς μὴ γεγονυῖα.\nποῦ τότε Παλλάδιον; ποῖός σε ϑεὸς διασώσει,\nχρυσοῦς ἢ λίϑινος ἢ χάλκεος; ἢ τότε ποῦ σοι\nδόγματα συγκλήτου; ποῦ Ῥείης ἠὲ Κρόνοιο\nἠὲ Διὸς γενεὴ καὶ πάντων, ὧν ἐσεβάσϑης,\nδαίμονας ἀψύχους, νεκύων εἴδωλα καμόντων,\nὧν Κρήτη καύχημα τάφους ἡ δύσμορος ἕξει,\nϑρησχεύουσα ϑρόνωσιν ἀναισϑήτοις νεκύεσσιν.\nἀλλ᾽ ὅτε σοι βασιλεῖς, χλιδανή, τρὶς πέντε γένωνται","t":"and wolves and foxes will dwell in your foundations.\nAnd then you will be wholly desolate, as if you had never been.\nWhere then is the Palladium? What god will save you,\nof gold or stone or bronze? Or where then for you\nare the decrees of the senate? Where is the race of Rhea or of Cronus\nor of Zeus, and of all whom you revered,\nlifeless demons, images of the worn-out dead,\nwhose tombs ill-fated Crete will have as its boast,\nworshipping with thrones senseless corpses?\nBut when, luxurious one, you have had three times five kings","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.41 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-41)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.411":{"o":"καὶ ζωὴν ἀμάραντον, ὅταν πυρὶ πάντας ἐλέγξω.\nχωνεύσω γὰρ ἅπαντα καὶ εἰς καϑαρὸν διαλέξω,\nοὐρανὸν εἱλίξω, γαίης κευϑμῶνας ἀνοίξω,\nκαὶ τότ᾽ ἀναστήσω νεχροὺς μοῖραν ἀναλύσας\nκαὶ Havarov κέντρον, καὶ ὕστερον εἰς κρίσιν ἥξω\nκρίνων εὐσεβέων καὶ δυσσεβέων βίον ἀνδρῶν\"\nκαὶ κριὸν κριῷ καὶ ποιμένι ποιμένα ϑήσω\nκαὶ μόσχον μόσχῳ πέλας ἀλλήλων ἐς ἔλεγχον\"","t":"and unfading life, when I test all men by fire.\nFor I will smelt all things and sift them out into purity;\nI will roll up the heaven, I will open the hidden places of the earth,\nand then I will raise the dead, undoing fate\nand the sting of death, and afterwards I will come to judgment,\njudging the life of pious and of impious men;\nand I will set ram beside ram and shepherd beside shepherd\nand calf beside calf, near one another, to be tested.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.411 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-411)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.421":{"o":"οἵτινες ὑψώϑησαν ἐλεγχόμενοι ὑπ᾽ ἐλέγχῳ\nκαὶ στόμα παντὸς ἔφραξαν, ἵν᾿ αὐτοὶ ζηλώσαντες\nτοὺς ὁσίως πράσσοντας ἴσως καταδουλώσουσιν\nσιγᾶν προστάσσοντες, ἐπειγόμενοι διὰ κέρδος.\nἘχαὶ δόκιμοι παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ τότε χωρήσουσιν ἅπαντες,\nοὐκ ἐχϑὲς γέγονεν\" οὐχ ἤματα πολλὰ μεριμνᾷς,\nκοὐχέτι λοιπὸν ἐρεῖς λυπούμενος, αὔριον ἔσται᾽,\nοὐκ ἔαρ, οὐ χειμῶν᾽, οὔτ᾽ ἂρ ϑέρος, οὐ μετόπωρον,\nοὐ δύσιν ἀντολίην\" ποιήσω γὰρ μαχρὸν ἤμαρ.\nεἰς δ᾽ αἰῶνα τὸ φῶς “ > --- πεποϑημένον ἔσται.\n3 ᾿ » ), >, ’\nαὐτογένητος, ἄχραντος, ἀένναος ἀϊίδιός τε,","t":"those who were exalted, convicted by conviction,\nand stopped everyone's mouth, so that, being jealous,\nthey might perhaps enslave those who act with holiness,\ncommanding them to be silent, hastening for gain.\n… and all who are approved by me will then go forward.\nIt has not happened yesterday; you do not care for many days,\nand no longer will you say, grieving, \"It will be tomorrow,\"\nno spring, no winter, nor summer, no autumn,\nno setting, no rising; for I will make a long day.\nAnd into eternity the longed-for light will be … .\nSelf-begotten, undefiled, everlasting, eternal,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.421 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-421)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.431":{"o":"Ἐοὐρανοῦχος ἰσχύι μετρῶν ἔπυρόεσσαν αὐτμήν\nκαὶ πατάγου ὄχῆπτρον κατέχει σὺν ἀπηνέι πυρσῷ,\nπρηῦνει τὲ βαρυχτυπέων δουπήματα βροντῶν,\nγῆν κλονέων κατέχει ῥοιζήματα .......\nκἀστεροπῶν μάστιγας ἀπαμβλύνει πυροφεγγεῖς\nομβρωῶν δ᾽ ἄσπετα χεύματ᾽ ἔχει ῥιπάς τε χαλάζης\nχρυμαλέης νεφελῶν τε βολὰς καὶ χείματος ὁρμάς.\nαὐτοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἕχαστα νόῳ διατεχμαίρονται͵\nὅσσα περ αὐτῷ σοι δοκέει πρήσσειν τ᾽ ἐπινεύεις.\nἐσῷ παιδὶ πρὸ κτίσεως πάσης στέρνοις ἴσοισι πεφυκώς\"\nσύμβουλος, πλάστης μερόπων κτίστης τε βίοιο.","t":"who holds heaven, measuring with his strength the fiery breath,\nand holds the sceptre of the thunder-crash with relentless fire,\nand calms the din of heavy-roaring thunders;\nshaking the earth, he holds back the rushing … ,\nand blunts the fire-bright whips of the lightnings,\nand holds the countless streams of rains, and the gusts of icy hail,\nand the casting of clouds, and the onsets of winter.\nFor they discern each thing with mind,\nwhatever seems good to you to do, and to which you give your nod.\nYour Child, begotten before all creation, of one heart with you,\ncounsellor, fashioner of mortals, and creator of life.","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.431 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-431)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.441":{"o":"ὃν πρώτῃ στόματος γλυχερῇ προσφϑέγξαο φωνῇ\"\n“ποιήσωμεν ἰδοὺ πανομοίιον ἀνέρα μορφῇ\nἡμετέρῃ καὶ δῶμεν ἔχειν ζωαρχέα πνοιήν᾽\n© ϑνητῷ περ ἐόντι τὰ κοσμικὰ πάντα λατρεύσει\nκαὶ χοικῷ πλασϑέντι τὰ πάνϑ᾽ ὑποτάξομεν αὐτῷ᾽.\nταῦτα δ᾽ ἔφησϑα Λόγῳ, τῇ σῇ φρενὶ πάντα δ᾽ ἐτύχϑη\"\nπάντα δ᾽ ὁμοῦ στδιχεῖα κελεύσματι πείϑετο τῷ σῷ,\nἠέλιος μήνη, χορὸς ἄστρων \"οῦρεα RN","t":"to whom first you spoke with the sweet voice of your mouth:\n\"Behold, let us make a man wholly like our form,\nand let us give him life-giving breath to have;\nhim, though he is mortal, all the things of the world will serve,\nand to him, fashioned from dust, we will subject all things.\"\nThese things you said to the Word, and by your mind all things came to be;\nand all the elements together obeyed your command:\nsun, moon, the chorus of stars, mountains, …","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.441 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-441)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.451":{"o":"εὐφρόνη ἡμέρη ὕπνος ἔγερσις πνεῦμα καὶ ὁρμή,\nψυχὴ καὶ σύνεσις, τέχνη φωνή τε καὶ ἀλκή\nζῴων τ᾽ ἄγρια φῦλα τὰ »νηκτῶν καὶ πετεηνῶν\nκαὶ κτίσις ‚aldıog συνετάσσετο πλάσματι ϑνητῷ,\nπεζῶν τ᾽ ἀμφιβίων τε καὶ ἑρπυστῶν διφυῶν TE‘\nοὐρανὸς ἀὴρ πῦρ χϑὼν γῆ καὶ χεῦμα ϑαλάσοης,\n“ὃ πάντα γὰρ αὐτός σοι συνετάσσετο σῇ ὑπ᾽ ἀγωγῇ.\n' ὑστατίοις τε χρόνοις χϑόν ἀμείψατο καὶ βραχὺς ἐλϑών\nπαρϑένου ἐκ Μαρίας λαγόνων ἀνέτειλε νέον φῶς,\nοὐρανόϑεν δὲ μολὼν βροτέην ἐνεδύσατο μορφήν.\nπρῶτα μὲν οὖν Γαβριὴλ σϑεναρὸν δέμας ἁγνὸν ἐδείχϑη;\nδεύτερα καὶ κούρην ἀρχάγγελος ἔννεπε φωνῇ\" -","t":"night, day, sleep, waking, spirit and impulse,\nsoul and understanding, art, voice and strength,\nand the wild races of living things, of swimming creatures and of birds,\nand the eternal creation was ordered together for the mortal creature,\nof walkers and amphibians and creeping things and two-natured ones,\nheaven, air, fire, the land, the earth, and the flood of the sea;\nfor all things were ordered together for you under your guidance.\nAnd in the last times he passed to the earth, and coming small,\nfrom the womb of the virgin Mary he rose up as a new light,\nand, coming from heaven, he put on mortal form.\nFirst, then, Gabriel's strong and holy body was shown;\nand second, the archangel spoke to the maiden with his voice:","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.451 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-451)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.461":{"o":"“δέξαι ἀχράντοισι ϑεὸν σοῖς, παρϑένε, κόλποις᾽.\nὡς εἰπὼν ἔμπνευσε ϑεὸς χάριν *Nd αἰεὶ\" κούρῃ\"\nτὴν δᾶρα τάρβος ὁμοῦ ϑάμβος 9 ἕλεν εἰσαΐουσαν,\nστῆ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑποτρομέουσα᾽ νόος δέ οἱ ἐπτοίητο\nπαλλομένης χραδίης ὑπ᾿ ἀγνώστοισιν ἀκουαῖς.\nαὖτις δ᾽ εὐφράνϑη καὶ ἰάνϑη κέαρ αὐδῇ,\nκουρίδιον δ᾽ ἐγέλασσεν, ξὴν δ᾽ ἐρύϑηνε παρειήν\nχάρματι τερπομένη καὶ ϑελγομένη φρένας αἰδοῖ,\nκαί οἱ ϑάρσος ἐπῆλϑεν. ἔπος δ᾽ εἰσέπτατο νηϑδύν,\n“τὸ σαρχωϑὲν δὲ χρόνῳ καὶ γαστέρι ζῳογονηϑέν","t":"\"Receive God, virgin, in your undefiled bosom.\"\nSo saying, God breathed grace into the maiden … ;\nand fear and amazement together seized her as she heard,\nand she stood trembling; and her mind fluttered,\nher heart quivering at the unknown tidings.\nBut again she was gladdened, and her heart was warmed by the voice,\nand she laughed like a maiden, and her cheek reddened,\ndelighting in joy and her mind charmed with modesty,\nand courage came upon her. And the Word flew into her womb,\nand, having been made flesh in time and brought to life in the womb,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.461 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-461)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.471":{"o":"ἐπλάσϑη βροτέην ἰδέην καὶ κοῦρος ἐτύχϑη\nπαρϑενικοῖς τοκετοῖς\" τόδε γὰρ μέγα ϑαῦμα βροτοῖσιν,\nἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν μέγα ϑαῦμα ϑεῷ πατρὶ καὶ ϑεῷ υἱῷ.\nτικτόμενον δὲ βρέφος ποτὶ δ᾽ ἔπτατο γηϑοσύνη χϑών,\nοὐράνιος δ᾽ ἐγέλασσε ϑρόνος καὶ ἀγάλλετο κόσμος.\nκαινοφαὴς δὲ μάγοισι σεβάσϑη ϑέσφατος ἀστήρ,\nσπειρωϑὲν δὲ βρέφος δείχϑη ϑεοπειϑέσι φάτνῃ\nβουπελάταις τε καὶ αἰγονόμοις καὶ ποιμέσιν ἀρνῶν\"\nκαὶ Λόγου ἡ Βηϑλεὲμ πατρὶς ϑεόκλητος ἐλέχϑη.\nω *\nἐν κραδίῃ τε FOREIRORDORERN, πικρὰ τέρματα μισεῖν","t":"he was formed in mortal shape and became a boy\nby a virgin birth; for this is a great wonder to mortals,\nbut no great wonder to God the Father and God the Son.\nWhen the babe was born, the earth leapt for joy,\nand the heavenly throne laughed, and the world exulted.\nAnd the new-shining star, foretold by God, was revered by the Magi,\nand the babe in swaddling clothes was shown in a manger to those who obey God,\nto ox-herds and goatherds and shepherds of lambs;\nand Bethlehem was called the God-named fatherland of the Word.\n…\nand in the heart … to hate bitter ends","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.471 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-471)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.481":{"o":"καὶ πάντων ἀγαπᾶν τὸν πλησίον ὥσπερ ξαυτόν᾽\nκαὶ ϑεὸν ἐκ ψυχῆς φιλέειν, αὐτῷ δὲ λατρεύειν.\nTovvex ἄρ᾽ ἡμεῖς καὶ ὁσίης Χριστοῖο γενέϑλης\nοὐρανίης πεφυῶτες ἐπικλεόμεσϑα σύναιμοι\n46 μνῆστιν ἐυφροσύνης ἐπὶ ϑρησκείῃσιν ἔχοντες,\nεὐσεβίης τε καὶ ἀτρεκίης βαίνοντες ἀταρπούς.\nοὔποτε πρὸς νηῶν ἀδύτοις ἐώμεσϑα πελάζειν,\nοὐ ξοάνοις σπένδειν, οὐδ᾽ εὐχωλῇσι γεραίρειν, -\nοὐδ᾽ ὀὁδμαῖς ἀνϑῶν πολυτερπέσιν οὐδὲ μὲν αὐγαῖς\nλαμπτήρων, ἀτὰρ οὐδ᾽ “ἄρα τοὺς\" ἀναϑήμασι κοσμεῖν,","t":"and to love the neighbour of all as oneself,\nand to love God from the soul and to serve him.\nTherefore we, born of the holy, heavenly race of Christ,\nare called his kinsmen,\nkeeping a remembrance of gladness in our worship,\nand treading the paths of piety and truth.\nWe are never permitted to approach the inner shrines of temples,\nnor to pour libations to images, nor to honour them with vows,\nnor with the delightful scents of flowers, nor with the gleam\nof lamps, nor indeed to adorn them with offerings,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.481 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-481)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.491":{"o":"οὐ λιβάνου ἀτμοῖσιν ἀνιεῖσιν φλόγα “βωμόν Ὁ\"\nοὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ ταυροϑύτοις μηλόσφαγα αἵματα λοιβαῖς\nλυτροχαρεῖς πέμπειν, χϑονίας μειλίγματα ποινῆς\"\nοὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ σαρχοβύόροιο πυρῆς κνισσώδεϊ καπνῷ\nκαὶ μιαραῖς πνοιῇσι μιαίνειν αἰϑέρος αὐγήν\"\nἀλλ᾽ ἁγναῖς πραπίδεσσι γεγηϑότες εὔφρονι ϑυμῷ\nἀφνειαῖς τ᾽ ἀγάπῃσι καὶ εὐδώροις παλάμῃσιν\nμειλιχίοις ψαλμοῖσι ϑεοπρεπέεσοσί TE μολπαῖς\nἄφϑιτον ἐξυμνεῖν σε καὶ ἄψευστον κελόμεσϑα,\n5800 παγγενετῆρα ϑεόν, πινυτόφρονα .........-.","t":"nor to send up flame to the altar with the vapours of frankincense,\nnor, at sacrifices of bulls, to send the blood of slaughtered sheep in libations,\ndelighting in ransom, as appeasements of earthly punishment;\nnor, with the savoury smoke of a flesh-devouring pyre\nand with polluted breaths, to defile the light of the aether;\nbut, rejoicing with holy hearts and a glad spirit,\nwith abundant love and generous hands,\nwith gentle psalms and songs fitting for God,\nwe are bidden to hymn you, the imperishable and the one without falsehood,\nGod, begetter of all, wise of mind … .","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.491 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-491)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.51":{"o":"χόσμον δουλώσαντες ἀπ᾽ ἀντολίης μέχρι δυσμῶν,\nἘ σσετ᾽ ἄναξ πολιόχρανος ἔχων πέλας οὔνομα πόντου\"\nκόσμον ἐποπτεύων μιαρῷ ποόί, δῶρα πορίζον,\nχρυσὸν μὲν πάμπλειστον ἔχον καὶ ἄργυρον ἐχϑρῶν\nπλείονα συλλέξας καὶ γυμνώσας ἀναλύσει.\nκαὶ μαγικῶν ἀδύτων μυστήρια πᾶντα μεϑέξει,\nπαῖδα ϑεὸν δεικνύσει, ἅπαντα σεβάσματα λύσει,\nἘχὰξ ἀρχῆς\" τὰ πλάνης μυστήρια πᾶσιν ἀνοίξει.\nαἴλινος ἔκτοτε καιρός, or’ Allwog αὐτὸς ὀλεῖται.\nκαί ποτε δῆμος ἐρεῖ ,μέγα σὸν κράτος, ἄστυ, πεσεῖται\"","t":"who have enslaved the world from the east to the west,\nthere will be a grey-headed lord, having a name close to that of a sea,\nsurveying the world with polluted foot, bestowing gifts,\nhaving very much gold, and gathering still more silver from his enemies,\nand stripping them he will … .\nAnd he will take part in all the mysteries of the magic shrines,\nhe will display a boy as a god, he will undo all objects of reverence,\n… he will open to all the mysteries of error.\nThenceforth a time of lament, when he himself will perish.\nAnd one day the people will say: \"Your great power, city, will fall,\"","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.51 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-51)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.61":{"o":"εἰδὼς εὐϑὺ τὸ μέλλον ἐπερχόμενον» κακὸν ἦμαρ.\nκαὶ τότε πενϑήσουσιν ὁμοῦ τὴν σὴν προβλέποντες\nοἰκτροτάτην μοῖραν πατέρες καὶ νήπια τέχνα\"\nαἴλινα ϑρηνήσουσι λυγροὶ παρὰ Θύμβριδος ύχϑαις.\nτὸν μέτα τρεῖς ἄρξουσι πανύστατον ἦμαρ ἔχοντες,\nοὔνομα πληρώσαντες ἐπουρανίοιο ϑεοῖο,\nοὐ τὸ χρᾶάτος καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς αἰῶνας ἅπαντας.\nεἷς μὲν πρέσβυς ἐὼν σκήπτρων ἐπὶ πουλὺ κρατήσει,\nοἰκτρότατος βασιλεύς, ὃς χρήματα κόσμου ἅπαντα\nτὸ δώμασιν ἐγκλείσει τηρῶν, ἵν᾽, ὅταν Y ἐπανέλϑῃ","t":"knowing at once the coming evil day.\nAnd then together they will mourn, foreseeing your\nmost piteous fate, fathers and little children;\nwretched, they will sing laments beside the banks of the Tiber.\nAfter him three will rule, having the very last day,\nfulfilling the name of the heavenly God,\nwhose is the power both now and for all ages.\nOne, being old, will hold the sceptres for a long time,\na most piteous king, who all the riches of the world\nwill shut up in his houses, guarding them, so that, when there returns","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.61 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-61)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.71":{"o":"&x περάτων γαίης ὃ φυγὰς μητροχτόγνος αἴϑοων,\nταῦτα ἅπασι διδοὺς πλοῦτον μέγαν Asidı ϑήσει.\nκαὶ τότε πενϑήσεις πλατυπόρφυρον ἡγεμονήων\n\"pös* ἐχδυσαμένη καὶ πένϑιμον εἶμα φοροῦσα,\nτὸ ὦ βασιλὶς μεγάλαυχε, Aatıwidog ἔχγονε Ῥώμης\"\nοὐχέτι σοι τῆς σῆς μεγαλαυχενίης κλέος ἔσται,\nοὐδ᾽ ὀρϑωϑήσῃ ποτὲ δύσμορος, ἀλλὰ κλιϑήσῃ᾽\nκαὶ γὰρ ἀετοφόρων λεγεώνων δόξα πεσεῖται.\n᾿ ποῦ τότε σοι τὸ κράτος; ποία γῆ σύμμαχος ἔσται\nδουλωϑεῖσα τεαῖς ματαιοφροσύνῃσιν ἀϑέσμως;","t":"from the ends of the earth the fugitive mother-slayer, blazing,\nhe will give these things to all and set great wealth for Asia.\nAnd then you will mourn, having put off the broad-purple\nrobe of rulers and wearing a garment of mourning,\nO boastful queen, offspring of Latin Rome;\nno longer will you have the glory of your arrogance,\nnor will you ever be raised up, ill-fated one, but you will lie low;\nfor the glory of the eagle-bearing legions too will fall.\nWhere then is your power? What land will be your ally,\nlawlessly enslaved by your vain thoughts?","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.71 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-71)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.81":{"o":"πάσης γὰρ γαίης ϑνητῶν τότε σύγχυσις ἔσται,\nαὐτὸς ὃ παντοχράτωρ ὅταν ἐλϑὼν βήματι κρίνῃ\nζώντων καὶ νεκύων ψυχὰς καὶ κόσμον ἅπαντα. ®\nκοῦτε γονεῖς τέχνοισι φίλοι, οὐ τέχνα γονεῦσιν\nἔσσονται διὰ δυσσεβίην καὶ ϑλῖψιν ἄελπτον.\nἔχτοτέ σοι βρυγμὸς καὶ σκορπισμὸς καὶ. ἅλωσις,\nπτῶσις ὅταν ἔλϑῃ πόλεων καὶ χάσματα γαίης\"\nπορφύρεός τε δράχων ὁπόταν ἐπὶ κύμασιν ἔλϑῃ\nγαστέρι πλῆϑος ἔχων καὶ ϑρέψει σεῖο τὰ τέκνα\nἐσσομένου λιμοῦ TE καὶ ἐμφυλίου πολέμοιο,","t":"For then there will be confusion of mortals over all the earth,\nwhen the Almighty himself comes and judges from his tribunal\nthe souls of the living and of the dead, and the whole world.\nNeither will parents be friends to their children, nor children to their parents,\nbecause of impiety and unlooked-for affliction.\nThenceforth for you there will be gnashing and scattering and capture,\nwhen the fall of cities comes, and chasms of the earth;\nand when the purple dragon comes upon the waves,\nhaving a multitude in his belly, and afflicts your children,\nwhen there is to be famine and civil war,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.81 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-81)."},"oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8.91":{"o":"ἐγγὺς μὲν κόσμου τὸ τέλος καὶ ἔσχατον ἥμαρ\nκαὶ *doxiuoıs* κλητοῖς κρίσις ἀϑανάτοιο ϑεοῖο.\nπρῶτα δὲ Ῥωμαίων ἀπαραίτητος χόλος ἔσται,\nαἱμοπότης καιρὸς καὶ δύστηνος βίος ἥξει.\nαἰαῖ σοι, Train χώρη, μέγα βάρβαρον ἔϑνος,\nοὐχ ἐνόησας, ὅϑεν γυμνὴ καὶ ἀνάξιος ἦλϑες\nπρὸς φάος ἠελίοιο, ἵν᾿ εἰς αὐτὸν πάλι χῶρον\nγυμνὴ χωρήσῃς καὶ ὕστερον ἐς κρίσιν ἔλϑῃς\nὡς ἀδίκως κρίνουσα.......« «νον νιν νον\nχερσὶ γιγαντείῃσι μόνη κατὰ κόσμον ἅπαντα","t":"near is the end of the world and the last day,\nand the judgment of the immortal God for the approved who are called.\nBut first there will be implacable wrath against the Romans;\na blood-drinking time and a wretched life will come.\nAlas for you, Italian land, great barbarian nation,\nyou did not perceive whence you came, naked and unworthy,\nto the light of the sun, so that to the same place again\nyou may go naked, and afterwards come to judgment\nas one who judges unjustly … .\nWith giant hands, alone throughout the whole world,","f":"<i>Sib. Or.</i> 8.91 (Geffcken GCS 8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/oracula-sibyllina-christiana/8-91)."}}