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Celsus gives them the name of Sibyllists**, because the Christians in
their disputes with the heathens sometimes made use of the of
Sibylla their own prophetess against them; whose writing they urged with
so much advantage to the Christian cause, and prejudice to the heathen,
that Justin Martyr*** says, the Roman governors made it death for any
one to read them, or Hystaspes, or the writings of the prophets.
Celsus gives them the name of Sibyllists**, because the Christians in
their disputes with the heathens sometimes made use of the of
Sibylla their own prophetess against them; whose writing they urged with
so much advantage to the Christian cause, and prejudice to the heathen,
that Justin Martyr*** says, the Roman governors made it death for any
one to read them, or Hystaspes, or the writings of the prophets.
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