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26o THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

horned spake to the angel, saying, "How do thy<br />

"prayers and thy petitions come unto the Lord<br />

"thy God?" And it came to pass that when the<br />

angel heard these words from him he wept with<br />

a great weeping. And the Two-horned said unto<br />

him, "O angel of God, what maketh thee to weep?"<br />

The angel said unto him, "Our prayers are not<br />

"like unto your prayers, and our supplications are<br />

Various "uot Hkc uuto your supplications, for our God is<br />

an"geis° "plcascd [to graut] but a few of your requests.<br />

"And as for us there are some angels in the<br />

"heavens who stand always on their feet, and<br />

"who never sit down [to these all requests are<br />

"granted]. And moreover, God Almighty hath,<br />

"in heaven, angels who worship before Him with<br />

"bowed heads which they never lift up. And<br />

"again, He hath angels who watch with their eyes<br />

"the divine worship, and their eyes never close at<br />

"any time. And again. He hath in heaven com-<br />

"panies of angels which praise Him, some in the<br />

"sea of snow, some in the sea of light, some in<br />

crossed the sea on the back of a beast hanging on to its<br />

hair; the monster was of enormous size, and as he moved<br />

along 'Amran was enabled to see the stream of the Nile<br />

flowing from Paradise and from the golden palaces thereof.<br />

The king of that region, hke <strong>Alexander</strong>'s angel, gave him<br />

a bunch of grapes, >^^sJ^\ liUil sLk»l^, and he returned to<br />

the man who had seen him go to tell him how to ascend<br />

the Nile, but he found him dead. Afterwards Iblis joined<br />

himself to 'Amran and his bunch of grapes ^_j.c

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