Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

500 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
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"God;' and the blood of Adam and of his children
"is avenged. And again he said concerning the
"Father, 'Is it not He, the Father, Who created
"thee? He created thee and He made thee.' And
"again he saith concerning the Spirit, 'Thou didst
"send forth Thy Spirit and didst cover up the sea,
"and through the spirit of Thy wrath the waters
"stood up.' Here he alludeth to the Holy Spirit
"concerning Whom speak the words which say,
"He goeth forth from the Father and deriveth
"Himself from Him;' He is the third and is the
"fulness of the Spirit, the Paraclete, Who existed
"with thee from the beginning of the world."
CHAPTER XX.
Alexander And Alexander answered and said, "Woe is me,
Hr7ather's"0 Lord God Almighty, for my father died in this
knowledge, .'gt^te and in possession of the astrolabe only. Now
"he was well acquainted with all the learning of
"the [wise] men of Greece, and he used to com-
"pute everything which had taken place and which
"was to come to pass, that which belonged to
"times of old and that which concerned the time
"[p. 309] which was to come. And I was with
"him, and he desired that I too should learn and
"make myself acquainted with the use of the
"astrolabe, which is an instrument for taking the
"altitude of the sun. Now we lived by the side of
"the Great Sea, and he used to measure, and to