“... Books 1 and 2 of the Sibylline Oracles contain Christian redaction and may be from the second or third century. Following M. R. James's example (ANT 521-4) I include a translation of lines 190-338 of the second book. This section seems to have been taken from the Apocalypse of Peter. The final lines of the extract seem to point to the ultimate salvation of all sinners, an idea to be found in the Appendix of the Ethiopic text of the Apocalypse of Peter (see above, at end of text). ...”

“... In the Ethiopic translation, which constitutes the widest recension available of the Apocalypse of Peter, Christ affirms: Then I shall give to those who belong to me, the elect and justified, the bath and the salvation for which they have implored me, in the Acherusian valley, called Elysian Fields, and I shall go and rejoice together with them. I shall have the peoples enter my eternal Kingdom, and I shall do for them what I and my heavenly Father had promised them. The last sentence contains a rather obscure allusion to the salvation of the damned. But the parallel Rainer fragment, in Greek, which is much more ancient (third century), is far more explicit regarding the eventual salvation of the damned: I shall grant to my summoned and elect all those whom they ask me to remove from punishment. [...] It is meaningful that the Ethiopic passage underwent modifications aimed at eliminating the reference to the salvation of the damned. ...”