from Constantine & Christendom
edited and translated by Mark Edwards
Transl. Texts from Historians (2003)
vol. 39 Liverpool University Press
"Now the Erythraean Sibyl,
saying that she was born in the
sixth generation after the flood,
was a priestess of Apollo,
wearing a diadem on equal terms
with the God whom she worshipped,
in charge of the tripod round which
the snake was coiled. . . she foretold
in words what was to happen with
respect to God, plainly revealing
by the prefixing of the initial
letters, which is called an acrostic,
the history of Jesus' descent"
(page 41)
The acrostic spells the words
Iesous Christos Theou Huios
Soter Stauros (Jesus Christ,
Son of God, Saviour, Cross).
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