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242 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> THcn thc Two-homed departed from that place<br />

tatT^^L and from that country. And he, together with a<br />

dTrkness^<br />

few of his frien^s, marched for many nights in the<br />

reo-ion of darkness,' and he went before them, and<br />

left his friends who were with him to watch for<br />

him in the head of the darkness,"" for they were<br />

aweary with marching in the darkness, but God<br />

Almighty gave him strength for the journey. And<br />

it came to pass that after he had marched for<br />

one day and one night he sat down [p. 138] to<br />

rest for a time, and afterwards, when he went on<br />

again into the darkness he found a straight path<br />

which had no wall, and it had no high and no<br />

low place in it. And it came to pass that as he<br />

was marching through the night,^ he arrived at<br />

the mountain which surroundeth the whole world,<br />

and it was concerning this mountain that God<br />

Almighty spake unto Job, the righteous man, when<br />

He said, "I have created the world, and I have<br />

"surrounded it with a stone to strengthen it so<br />

The angel "that it may not move." And he saw near the<br />

tain. mountain a certain one of the angels holding the<br />

agreed that 6000 Greeks and 6000 Persians should guard<br />

the gate of iron and brass. <strong>Alexander</strong> settled the smiths who<br />

had made it in Beth Dema and Beth Doshar.<br />

^ The land probably referred to in Pseudo-Callisthenes,<br />

Bk. ii. chap. 37 (Miiller, p. 88, col. i), Kai 61' ri|uepuJv<br />

heKa bieXGuJO, to Tfjg rmepa; ttuk t^v cpexTOS, ctXV em oipa?<br />

juiag iLiiKpd T15 icpaiveto auY'i-<br />

' I. e., at the place where the darkness began.<br />

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