Page:Chapters on Jewish literature (IA chaptersonjewish00abra).pdf/44

40 low, the earth will be desolated by the divine wrath, the race of men and cities and rivers will be reduced to smoky dust, unless moral amendment comes betimes. Then the Sibyl’s note changes into a prophecy of Messianic judgment and bliss. and she ends with a comforting message:

The Jews found some consolation for present sorrows in the thought of past deliveraneces. The short historical record known as the “Scroll of Fasting”