Sibylline Oracles

"The wicked ... worship stones and brute beasts instead of God, revering very many things, one here another there, which have no reason, or mind or hearing."

"From their own labors and wicked notions men have accepted gods of wood and stone. They have made them of bronze and gold and silver, vain lifeless, dumb, and smelted in fire, vainly putting their trust in such as these."

"There was once among men a shining light of the sun when the harmonious ray of the prophets was being spread abroad, a tongue dripping a beautiful drink for all mortals with honeyed sweetness; it made manifest, offered and effected gentle things for all."

"The imperishable God who dwells in the sky in anger will case a lightning bolt from heaven against the power of the impious."

"O MEN, why do ye vainly think on things Too lofty, as if ye immortal were?"