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A PRAYER OF ALEXANDER. 221<br />

men of war with them; and their numbers amounted<br />

to three hundred and twenty thousand horsemen,<br />

besides footmen, and artificers, and workers in<br />

brass and iron, and workers in stone, and there<br />

followed them their wives' and their children and<br />

their men-servants and their maid-servants.<br />

And when <strong>Alexander</strong> had finished the [p. 126]<br />

giving of his orders, he turned his face towards<br />

the east, and he prayed unto God Almighty,<br />

saying, "O my God, the King of kings, and God He prays to<br />

"of gods, and Prince of princes, with the eyes of<br />

"my heart I have beheld Thy glory, O Thou Who<br />

"dwellest above the Cherubim and Seraphim, and<br />

"around Whose throne thousands of thousands and<br />

"ten thousands of ten thousands of angels, and<br />

"archangels, and lords, and dominions stand and<br />

"sing hymns of praise unto Thee. O my God,<br />

"Thou art He Who abaseth and promoteth to<br />

"honour such kings as Thou pleasest by Thy<br />

"power, and sovereignty, and might. Thou knowest<br />

"what is in my soul, and Thou hast magnified me<br />

"among the nations, and hast exalted me among<br />

"the kings of the earth, and it is Thou Who hast The two<br />

"made two horns to grow on my head, wherewith<br />

"I may thrust down the kings of the earth. Grant<br />

"Thou unto me of Thy heavenly power, and<br />

"riches, and might, and victory over all the kings<br />

"6f the earth, and grant that I may see Thy<br />

"mysteries in Thy land, and I will, by Thy power,<br />

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