Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER ADDRESSES RAHAMAN. 295
"And now, my heart and mind are [set] upon
"Another, from Whom none of my beloved friends
"is hidden or concealed; and if I were to tell
"thee concerning His Majesty and of the terror of
"Him Who is invisible, it would be too hard for
"thee [to understand]. He it is Who hath called Alexander's
"me to drink' [of the cup of death], even as those Rahaman.
"who have been before me have done, and as
"those who shall come after me shall do; I have
"no power to look at Him,'' even for the twinkling
"of an eye, from the time when I came forth
"from my mother's womb into the light of this
"world, and during all my days and up to this
"present hour. He is mighty, and powerful, and
"exceedingly terrible, O my beloved. For every
"[country] which I have seen, and in which I have
"been, and over which I have had dominion, from
"the first even unto the last [is His], and I have
"done marvellous things through Him, and I have
"laboured through Him. And, behold, the kingdom
"which hath been given unto me hath diminished,
"and hath grown small, and hath passed away,
"and hath vanished into darkness in my sight by
"reason of this which hath laid hold upon me.
"And He hath sent trembling into-^ my bones,
"together with the fear of calamities, and He in
"Whom I am and upon Whom I cast my eyes
"and look, hath magnified it. Woe unto my soul,
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