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BY AN ANONYMOUS WRITER. 435<br />

"to me for <strong>Alexander</strong>, whom I feared, and now<br />

"it hath come to pass that we have no victorious<br />

"king left unto us. He conquered the world before<br />

"he conquered you, therefore ascribe righteousness<br />

"unto yourselves; and now I have accepted your<br />

"words of consolation." Then she commanded<br />

them to bury him, and they buried him in the<br />

city of Alexandria at the end of the five thousand,<br />

two hundred and thirty-seventh year from the<br />

creation of the world. And the number of the<br />

days of <strong>Alexander</strong> were seventy-two years; and<br />

the writer of this book saith that he reigned fifty<br />

and seven' years.<br />

' Read 9(01 : "fifty-six?"<br />

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