Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER'S ADDRESS TO HIS DISCIPLES. 3I5
"And Enoch God [kept alive] by reason of the God's deai-
"[p. 183] fair beauty of his deeds until the time Enoch.
"which He hath promised unto His chosen ones.
"And He brought down the children of Cain who
"had denied God Almighty and made them to
"dwell' in the land of Alexandria." And after
"this they multiplied sin and became like unto
"the beasts which have no laws, and they flamed
"with lust, and burned with passion, and Satan
"seduced them with dances and lascivious gestures;
"and this sin was in their bodies until the end of
"days. And when they burned with lust they
"begat mighty giants, creatures who were perfect
"in beauty, but God Almighty took no heed to
"their beauty because of the multitude of their
"sins. But He sent against them the punishments
"of His wrath, and He destroyed them by the
"Flood and by cruel death; thus they died, and
"perished, and were destroyed, together with the
"children of Seth who had joined themselves unto
"them.3
' According to the Book of Adam and Eve, ii. XL i.
they went down from the mountain and dwelt in the west.
" It is well known that a part of Alexandria was built upon
a swamp, and with this fact compare Cedrenus, Hist. Comp.,
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