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Deceptions and Myths of the bible
Lloyd M. Graham
New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation (1975)
"...The Sibylline Verses also contained material that later became "sacred Christian doctrine" --the prophecy of a Savior, his miraculous birth, and divine parentage, etc. Virgil mentions them thus:
Begin Sicilian Muse, a lofty strain,
The voice of Cumae's oracle is heard again.
See where the cycling years new blessings bring;
The Virgin comes, and he, the long-wished king.
Saint Justin, born about 100 A.D. quoted the Sibylline Verses in his efforts to convince the Emperor Marcus Antonius that Christ's coming had been foretold, not only by Hebrew prophets but by the Cumaean Sibyl. Constantine also quoted them to prove the divinity of Chrit, which proves only that these early Christians were completely ignorant of their meaning, for these verses were referring only to the zodiacal cycles. In these cycles lies also the zodiacal meaning of many things assumed to derive from Christ --Christmas, Easter, and the like..."