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496 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"friend/ of which thou speakest, was not for the<br />

"sake of the world to which I had descended, but<br />

"in order that I might hold familiar converse with<br />

"him, and that I might see the sins of Sodom and<br />

"Gomorrah. For the people thereof had made<br />

"evil to ascend, and the cry of their sins [had<br />

"come] to Me, and I went down to see if they<br />

"would perform their sin in My presence, and they<br />

"did so, even as I had heard, and they perished,<br />

"and were rooted out. And again, at a later time,<br />

Christ's In- "I will descend to redeem the world which hath<br />

^"Vesur- "grown old in the corruption of Adam, and I will<br />

"^j^"^"""^ P"' "renew it again by My coming. And I will put<br />

"on flesh and become man, and I will appear unto<br />

"all men in the flesh of Adam; and I will be cruci-<br />

"fied in it and I will rise again from the dead,<br />

"and I will ascend to the throne of My former<br />

"existence with My Father. And again, when the<br />

"appointed time hath come, I will come once more<br />

"in the glory of My Father to judge both the<br />

"quick and the dead. And I will requite unto<br />

"every man according unto his deeds: to those<br />

"who have abode patiently in My law I will give<br />

"a great reward, and they shall dwell with Me for<br />

"ever; but those who have not abode patiently<br />

"in My law^ shall suffer torment in Sheol with<br />

"weeping and gnashing of teeth: together with<br />

"their father the Devil they shall never see the<br />

"light."<br />

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