Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

408 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Jews heard of his coming to them they were
afraid of him, and when the high priest and all
the [p. 240] Jews who were in the Sanctuary knew
The Jews of it they fasted and made supplication unto God
Almighty the Glorious and Exalted, and they
entreated Him to deliver them; then they went
forth to receive Alexander as he drew nigh unto
the city,' and the high priest^ was in front of
them. And when Alexander saw the priest he
thought that he was like unto the messenger whom
he had seen on the way, and he was mindful of
what he had ordered him to do, and he made
Alexander's haste and came down from his horse, and fell
thT^^high". upon his face, and he saluted him and magnified
priest.
2jJjjj_ Then the kings and the nobles who were
with Alexander marvelled at these things, and
they were stupefied at what he had done, and
they spake unto him, saying, "O great king, where-
"fore hast thou come down from thy horse and
"hast paid homage unto a man who hath no do-
"minion over thee, and who is only as one of thy
"subjects-' and servants?"* and Alexander related
to them the history of the messenger whom he
had seen and what he had ordered him [to
' See Pseudo-Callisthenes, Bk. ii. chap. 24: Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews, Bk. xi. 5; and Joseph ben-Gorion,
Bk. ii. chap. 7.
^ Called Jaddua or Ananias.
3 Read h^nC't-Vh :
t Heb, : TXiVhth TO lb i^K itTN HtH t^''^'? n^inntiTi ;;nDj
see Bk. i. chap. 7 (p. 86).