Abstract
In the so-calledTubingen Theosophy there is an oracle attributed to Apollo, in which the Greek god complains of his defeat brought about by the divine power of Christ. The aim of the present essay is to demonstrate that these verses are the first part of a longer oracular text, recorded in only two other manuscripts. This longer version of the oracle contains in the second part clear monophysite tenets concerning the person and miracles of Christ, and was part of the original text of theTheosophy. It was conceived as a direct apologetic response to an authentic pagan oracle of Apollo, mentioned and commented on by Porphyry in his anti-Christian treatiseOn the Philosophy from Oracles, which denied the divine nature of Christ and approved his condemnation to death. The Christian oracle of Apollo is a forgery written around 500 CE by a monophysite theologian with classical learning—who is mot probably to be identified with Severus of Antiocch—in order to strengthen the idea of the definitive victory of Christianity over the old Greek cults.
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