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The Sibylline Oracles expands the peaceful kingdom described in Isaiah 11, where wolves and lambs graze together. The Sibyl depends on the Greek Septuagint translation of Isaiah, using its vocabulary to depict cosmic restoration.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Sibylline Oracles 3:788
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
786 joy in your age. And he will live in you; 787 and yours will be immortal and wolves 788 and lambs will feed on grass in the mountains 789 together, and leopards will graze with kids; 790 and bears will stay among the pasturing calves; 791 and the carnivorous lion will eat chaff 792 at the manger like the cow; and little children 793 will lead them in bonds; for he will make beasts 794 helpless on earth. With babies will fall asleep 795 serpents, along with asps, and do no harm; for the hand of God will be over them.
LXX Isaiah 11:6
Septuagint
5 And he shall have his loins bound with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth. 6 And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion and the ox shall eat straw together. 8 And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps. 9 And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covers the seas. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.
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“... She first incorporates the thanksgiving hymn of Isaiah 12, which results partly from the New Creation described it 11:6-9 but also from the New Creation oracle of Isaiah 65 (compare εὐφραίνω, ἀγάλλομαι, Sibylline Oracles 3:785; Isaiah 12:6; 65:18; ὃς οὐρανὸν ἔκτισε καὶ γῆν, Sibylline Oracles 3:786; ἔσται ὁ οὐρανὸς καινὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ καινή, Greek Isaiah 65:17; and ἐν σοὶ δ’ οἰκήσει, Sibylline Oracles 3:787; ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς, Greek Isaiah 12:6). Jerusalem is to rejoice because God will restore them and establish it as his eternal dwelling, with the light of his presence shining out from the city and over the earth (Sibylline Oracles 3:787). The Sibyl then continues by describing the attendant circumstances of Zion’s restoration with language taken from Isaiah 11:6-9 and, in turn, 65:25 (verses 788-795) ...”
Sherwood, Aaron
Paul and the Restoration of Humanity in Light of Ancient Jewish Traditions
(p. 186) Brill, 2013
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