Note 531 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES
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Like the Gold Plate of Caecilia Secundina, Chapter IV, p. 133, supra. So the Sibylline Oracles contain the acrostic ΙΧΘΥΣ which covers the name and titles of Jesus, Renan, L’Église Chrétienne, p. 535 and note. The Greeks must have caught the taste for such devices, for an acrostic is found in a treatise on astronomy by Eudoxos of Cnidos copied in the second cent. B.C. Many other instances are given by Brunet de Presle, Les Papyrus Grecs du Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1865, pp. 43, 44. He says with some reason that the practice was borrowed by the Greeks from the Jews.