Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER'S ADDRESS TO HIS DISCIPLES. 3I9
"And again, did not God destroy Sodom and The over-
"Gomorrah, togetiier with a number of men andso^ and
"cities, when they acted corruptly and committed ^°"""''''*'
"fornication [p. 185] with men, and when they
"deHghted themselves with adultery and fornication
"and transgressed His law? And because they were
"minded [to do this] unto the prophets who were sent
"as messengers [thither], as soon as Lot had gone
"back to them God Almighty made the top of
"their habitation to be its bottom, and He des-
"troyed them, and sent forth His wrath against
"them, and He rained on them great stones from
"heaven, and overthrew their cities. Not one of
"them was left alive, and they filled Sheol with
"their iniquities, which they had brought forth upon
"themselves.
"And was it not God Who wrought for His God's deai-
"servant Job,^ the righteous man, who was His job!
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"prophet and His friend? Now he was one of the
"richest men in the world, and God multiplied his
"riches, and his household, and his children, and
"his menservants, and his maidservants, and all
"his possessions, and his place was too strait for
"him because of the multitudes of his beasts and
' Arabic tradition makes Job to have been the son of
Amus, the son of Zareh, the son of R'ul, the son of Esau,
the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham. He dwelt in Syria,
in the district of the Hauran and Bathaniyyeh, which is in
the region of the Jordan between Damascus and Jabia (see
Yakut, torn. ii. p. r); see Mas'iidi, torn. i. pp. 90, 91. He
was a contemporary of Joseph the son of Jacob.