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Yours sincerely in Jesus and Mary
Father François Laisney
Q I can remember you shortly spoke about Sybils, Greek prophet, in your sermon. People say that the Catholic Church in the Middle Age adopted her prophecy to convert and assimilate pagans. People believe that she predicted the last times. Do you believe in her oracles?
A The writings of the Sibyls were known from the early church. Less than 50 years after St John¡¯s death, St Justin martyr mentions several times the Sibyl in his writings. St Augustine mentions them too. However, these were mentioned to the pagans, in order to help them convert, with the argument: ¡°even some of YOUR prophets announced Christ¡±, but the Church herself did not have FAITH in the sibylline ¡°prophecies¡±. On the contrary, we see St Augustine (and others) caution against them. For instance, he mentions how Cicero himself cautioned about these ¡°prophecies¡± saying that they were so ambiguous that whatever happened, one could claim that they had prophesised it!
The prophecies of the sibyls are not put on par with Sacred Scriptures at all. One should not give ¡°faith¡± to these prophecies. But it may be that some of them (only a small number) were genuinely inspired by God, in order to help a certain number of people living among pagans to learn about Christ through them. Thus St Augustine, in the 18th book of the City of God, has a whole passage concerning a certain Sibyl from Eritrea, which "manifestly wrote about Christ". (de Civitate Dei, 18:23,1-2). One may give ¡°human faith¡±, not ¡°divine faith¡± to such prophecies. Human faith is based on human testimony; divine faith is based on divine testimony, i.e. testimony guaranteed by God. What makes that even if it is a genuine inspiration, such sibylline passage is not worthy of ¡°divine faith¡± is the fact that it is isolated, so that the genuineness of the account is hardly corroborated by others. Thus the same St Augustine says in another place that sometimes pagans accuse Christians of having made up such testimonies. This is most likely false, because – as I said – St Justin was already able to quote them to Greeks, who were much better placed to check the accuracy of the quote: he, St Justin, himself had been a pagan philosopher before his conversion and knew what writings were accepted by those to whom he wrote. Hence St Augustine says that the Catholic much prefer the Old Testament prophecies, because they were fool-proof against such accusation, since the text was in the hands of the unbelieving Jews, who, because they rejected Christ, could not be accused of having ¡°made them up¡±. St Augustine shows thus the wisdom of Divine Providence, drawing good out of the very infidelity of these Jews: it gave a guarantee of truth to the prophecies of the Old Testament!
So to mention the Sibyls is not equivalent to give ¡°divine faith¡± to their writings! They were indeed mentioned in the middle ages (e.g. in the dies irae) as well as in the very early Church, but the Church never gave ¡°faith¡± to them, certainly never on par with the Holy Scriptures! And we should continue that same attitude of the Church today.
Yours sincerely in Jesus and Mary
Father François Laisney