Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

2 8o THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
Magug (Magog), and those that belonged unto
them, that they might only move round about and
go hither and thither in the lands which were
theirs,' and that they might not go forth there-
from or be able to go up out from them to waste
and ravage the lands beyond theirs. Now he did
all this by the decree of the glorious God.
And it came to pass that when the Two-horned
arrived at the places where the sun rose and set,
he saw the seventh heaven and the habitation
Alexander thcrcof, and he set a double seal between the
he may see divlue children of Adam and between Yagug (Gog)
Ocean. ^^^ Magug (Magog), who are also the children of
Adam, but who are like beasts. And he spake
in his prayer to God, saying, "O my Lord and
"God, great praise and glory be unto Thee, O
"Thou Who art betwixt heaven and earth. O my
"God, I give much thanks unto Thee, because I
"have seen Thy wonders in Thy earth, and Thy
"creation, and Thy country, and no man who
"hath been before me hath seen, and no man who
"shall come after me upon this earth shall see the
"mountains, and the seas, and the darkness, and
"the light [which I have seen]; and I have also
"been to the mountain which is in the depths of
"the sea, and I know it. And, O my God and
"Lord, I long to know [where is] the sea which
"goeth round about all the world, and what
"wonders there are therein, that I may tell them
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