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In the Sibylline Oracles, God gathers for judgment those whom beasts and fire consumed, and the Sibyl offers no scriptural support. In the Apocalypse of Peter, Jesus resolves this by referencing Ezekiel's prophecy of the bones.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Sibylline Oracles 2:235
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
231 all forms that have endured much suffering, 232 especially the shapes of Titans born long ago, 233 and giants, and all whom the flood overwhelmed, 234 and all who perished in the billowy seas, 235 and all who provided a feast for the beasts and creeping things and birds, these in a mass 236 he will (Uriel) summon to the judgment-seat; and also those whom flesh-devouring fire 237 destroyed in flame, even these he will collect 238 and place before the judgment-seat of God. And when the Lord of Sabaoth who thunders on high
Apocalypse of Peter 1:12
Revelation of Peter
Early Christian
11 See now what will come upon them in the last days, when the day of God and the day of the decision of the judgment of God comes. From the east to the west all the children of men will be gathered together before my Father, who lives forever. And he will command hell to open its bars of adamant and give up all that is in it. 12 He will command the wild beasts and the birds to restore all the flesh that they have devoured, because he wills that all people should appear; for nothing perishes before God, and nothing is impossible with him, because all things are his. 13 For all things come to pass on the day of decision, on the day of judgment, at the word of God: and as all things were done when he created the world and commanded all that is in it and it was done — so also will it be in the last days; for all things are possible with God. Therefore he says in the scripture: Son of man, prophesy upon the bones and say to the bones: bone to bone in joints, sinews, nerves, flesh and skin and hair on them, and soul and spirit.
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Notes and References
“... Book 2 contains a long eschatological section (154-338) in which resurrection and the judgment and destinies of the dead are prominent subjects. But most of this section (178-338) is a paraphrase of the Christian Apocalypse of Peter, supplemented by passages taken from Sibylline Oracle 8. All the material on resurrection and judgment of the dead is from the Apocalypse of Peter. This dependence on the Apocalypse of Peter was already demonstrated conclusively by M.R. James, 'A New Text of the Apocalypse of Peter,' JTS 12 (1911) 39-44, 51-52, but his work is not known to J. J. Collins, who therefore underestimates the extent of the Christian material in book 2 [...] Thus the only eschatological material from the original Jewish book 1-2 is in 2:154-177. ...”
Bauckham, Richard
The Jewish World around the New Testament: Collected Essays
(p. 321) Mohr Siebeck, 2008
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