Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

J 28 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"thee king; and I have made thee My prophet,
"and for thy sake I have turned back many great
"and mighty kings who are very much mightier
"than thou art. And I have put a multitude of
"afflictions and thy eldest son Absalom far from
"thee, so that when he came against thee to-
"gether with hosts of soldiers, I turned them back
"because I knew [thee]; and I slew them, and I
"came between thee and them, and I blotted out
God's fur- "their counsel. And I wrought that which thy
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to David. latner Adam .... them m his prayer and re-
"pentance. For when he was naked and had
"hidden himself from me among' the trees of
"the garden I said unto him. Thy life which I
"have put in thee lieth in My hands. Are not
"darkness and light alike [unto Me].'* Dost thou
"think that thou canst cover up thyself from Me?
"or that thou canst hide thyself from my presence?
"Where is the command with which I commanded
"thee? Then I brouo^ht him out from the greatness
"and from the honour which I had g-iven him and
"had bestowed upon him at the first, and after
"his going forth he wept upon the ground for his
"sins for forty years. And after these things he
"dwelt for twenty years without raising his head
"to heaven, and he wept and mourned for what
"he had done. Now the sorrow of Adam for his
"expulsion from My presence and for his departure
"from Me was greater than that with which any
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