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Title: The pathway of life ... to which is added a biography of Dr. Talmage
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Publisher: Historrical pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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d, was brought to resurrection ! ORACLES AND SIBYLS. The Delphic Oracle deceived vast multitudes of people; the Pythoness, seatedin the Temple of Apollo, uttered a crazy jargon from which the people guessedtheir individual or national fortunes or misfortunes. The utterances were of sucha nature that you could read them any way you wanted to read them, A generalgoing forth to battle consulted the Delphic Oracle, and he wanted to find outwhether he was going to be safe in the battle or killed in the battle, and the answer•came forth from the Delphic Oracle in such words that if you put the comma beforethe word never, it means one thing, and if you put the comma after the wordnever, it means another thing just opposite. The message from the DelphicOracle to the general was: Go forth, return never in battle shalt thou perish. If he was killed, that was according to the Delphic Oracle; if he came homesafely, that was according to the Delphic Oracle. So the ancient auguries deceived (418)
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