Sibylline Oracles depicts God commanding all of creation to give Adam λατρευω, the highest form of religious/cultic worship.
- Type
- Manuscript
- Source
- John Joseph Collins Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Translation
- Reference
Sibylline Oracles 8:442-444 in J. J. Collins, "Sibylline Oracles," The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, ed. James H. Charlesworth, 2 vols. (New York: Yale University Press, 1983), 1:428
- Scribe/Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
“Look, let us make a man like in all respects to our form, and let us give him the life-supporting breath to have. Though he is mortal all the things of the world will serve him..."
- BHR Staff Commentary
Verse 444 in Greek reads "ᾧ θνητῷ περ ἐόντι τὰ κοσμικὰ πάντα λατρεύσει," using the verb λατρευω, the Greek verb indicating the highest form of cultic (religious) worship. In this passage, all of creation is ordered to give Adam such cultic worship due to his being made in God's image (cf. Genesis 1:26).
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