3 The priests were filled with fear. They said, A great disaster is to come; our gods are mad; they have destroyed our Oracle.
4 But when the flames had spent themselves, a man stood on the orac pedestal and said;
5 God speaks to man, not by an oracle of wood and gold, but by the voice of man.
6 The gods have spoken to the Greeks, and kindred tongues, through images made by man; but God, the One, now speaks to man through Christ the only son, who was, and is and evermore will be.
7 This Oracle shall fail; the Living Oracle of God, the One, will never fail.
8 Apollo knew the man who spoke; he knew it was the Nazarene who once had taught the wise men in the Acropolis and had rebuked the idol worshippers upon the Athen’s beach;
9 And in a moment Jesus stood before Apollo and the Silent Brotherhood, and said,
10 Behold, for I have risen from the dead with gifts for men. I bring to you the title of your vast estate.
11 All power in heaven and earth is mine; to you I give all power in heaven and earth.
12 Go forth and teach the nations of the earth the gospel of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal life through Christ, the love of God made manifest to men.