Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

XXVI INTRODUCTION.
of traditions concerning the Patriarchs of the Old
Testament, or of Bible history, he may have
borrowed freely, but when Alexander is made to
Alexander a say, "It is meet that we should not serve any
the\rinity" "god besides Himself and that we should worship
"Him in His Word and in His mercy, by which
"every thing existeth. His Persons being three, and
"His Godhead one," no doubt can be held as to
the origin of this addition. Already in the ac-
count of Alexander's expedition into Palestine, as
given in Muller's Greek codex C', the king is made
to ask one of the priests, "What god do you
"worship?" and the wily priest answers, "We serve
"the one God Who made heaven and earth, and
"all that therein is, and Whom no man hath been
Alexander a "able to find out." To this Alexander replies,
'"^'
"As worshippers of the true God, go in peace,
"for your God shall be my God. And let there
"be peace between me and you, and I will not
"pass through your land as I have through the
"countries of other peoples, because ye are the
"servants of the living God." Again, in the same
Codex, when Alexander has finished the buildino-
of his city Alexandria, he is made to go up to
the tower and to declare all the gods of the earth
vanity, and to acknowledge only one God to be
the true, and invisible, and inscrutable God, Who
rideth upon the wings of the Seraphim, and Who
is praised by cries of "Holy, Holy, Holy." ' If the
' See Muller, p. 83, col. i (Bk. ii. chap. 24).
' See MuUer, p. 85, col. i. dveicTiv 'A\e£av6poq iv Tiij