Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

272 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"stone?" Now the stone was weighed ag-ainst
every kind of substance, and there was nothing
which balanced it. And when he had taken a
handful of dust from the wise men he weighed
it, and then weighed the stone against the dust,
and behold, the dust was heavier than the stone.
And the wise men said, "Inasmuch as the
The parable "stoue is large it is a type of the punishment of
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"God Almighty [which shall come] upon thee, for
"thou art never satisfied, and nothing filleth
"the eye of a man except' dust. If two mountains,
"[the one] of gold and [the other] of silver, were
"to be given to thee thou wouldst seek for a
"third." Then was the Two -horned terrified at
the parable, and he gave up the search and re-
turned to his place; and he and his troops con-
tinued to march, for they had come forth [again]
into the light, which however was like neither
that of the sun nor that of the moon, but be-
tween the two.
And behold, they arrived at a beautiful country
in which a palace had been built, and the Two-
horned was terrified and thought that [p. 157] the
WelP of the Water of Life was therein; and hav-
ing come into the palace the Two-horned found
a chamber inlaid and ornamented with sapphires,
and emeralds, and jacinths. And he came to a
The birdand door in one of its sides, and he found an iron
the ring.
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