Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

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THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"thy head, O David, for behold, I have pardoned
"thee. And again, [I will say], I shall not forget
"that which thou hast done until thou comest to
"Me, and I will set thy sin in the palm of thy
"hand that thou mayest see it at morn and at
"eve, at all times, so that thou mayest never
"forget that which arose through thee. Multiply
"thy weeping until there be marks of [thy] tears
"upon thy couch.'
God's deal- "And was it not God Who worked for Solo-
soiomon. "mon, thc son of David, His beloved one, and
"His chosen' one, and the child of his hand-
"maiden.'* From his childhood up He gave him
"wisdom and understanding, and when he became
"a boy of twelve years old the kingdom over the
"children of the east and of the west was given
"unto him. And fiends, and demons, and men,
"and all kinds of feathered fowl, and all winds,
"and spirits, and seas, and darkness, and light,
"were in subjection unto him; and the knowledge
"of the days [was given to him], and everything
"which moved upon earth was in subjection unto
"him. And he built himself [p. 192] a glass house
"wherein were ten thousand complete rooms, and
"he built up the walls thereof so that he could
"see that which was behind it; and he could hear
Solomon's "the worm crawling upon the tiles of the chamber
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powers, "noor, and he could see the bird which was in
"the air out of sight. He made all the king-s of
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