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52<br />

THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"structor, and companion' hath told me out of the<br />

"hidden things of the treasury of his knowledge,<br />

"that the glorious God hath sent [to rule] over all<br />

The Mace- "the Icings [of the earth] a man of Macedonia who<br />

be victor- "shall m the whole course of his life never be<br />

"vanquished, and whom none of the kings of the<br />

"earth shall ever conquer.^ And I trust in my God,<br />

"Who hath* created me, and Who hath made me<br />

"to understand the majesty [p. 28] of His power,<br />

"that I shall be that man, for the glorious God<br />

"hath set knowledge in my heart, and He hath<br />

"graciously endowed me with honour, and He<br />

"hath made me to be a sign among His servants,<br />

"that I shall be as one of the mighty ones of the<br />

"earth who reigned before me. Moreover the<br />

"Lord my God hath set it in my heart to bring<br />

"down to the dust the mighty, and to punish the<br />

"hypocrites, and I know that the glorious God hath<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong>'s "given to me this preeminence so that He may<br />

from God. "perform for me that which I desire in this world,<br />

"and that He may make to be subject unto me<br />

"those who were subject unto the kings who were<br />

' "In his younger years <strong>Alexander</strong> admired Aristotle greatly,<br />

and he himself said that he loved him as much as he loved<br />

his father, for from the one he derived the blessing of life,<br />

and from the other the blessing of a good life. In later<br />

years his affection seems to have cooled." Plutarch, Alexan-<br />

der viii.<br />

^ The writer probably had in his mind Aristotle's greeting<br />

to <strong>Alexander</strong> xci'POiS 'AXeHav6pe KOCTjuoKpaTuup, cru yap<br />

(iTtOiToq pacTiXeiK; ear) (Meusel, p. 717).

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