Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

A CHRISTIAN ROMANCE. 50I
"weigh, and to compute through [his] great learning
"things which were about to happen in the latter
"days, and to consider by what means he had been
"created, and how he was stablished and continued pwiip'
speech to
"[alive]—until [the sun] came to the angle. And Alexander.
"he said unto me, 'Hear, O my son Alexander,
"'that which shall certainly come to pass after these
'"[times]. The Creator of heaven, and of earth,
" 'and of the sea, and of the dry land, and of the
'"sun, and of the moon, and of beasts and of
'"cattle, and of angels and of men, shall become
'"a man, and shall be crucified, and pierced, and
'"slain, and shall die.' And terror laid hold upon
"him and he wept, and he smote his face, and
"tore out by the roots the hair of his head, and
"plucked out his beard, and by reason of his
"mighty grief he rushed and threw himself head- pwiip's
"long into the sea and destroyed himself"
Then the Spirit which was upon Alexander
answered and said unto him, "He did not destroy
"himself. But he saw clearly that I should become
"man, and that I should be crucified, and that does
"and oxen would grin at Me, and that men would
"spit upon Me and buffet Me; all these things he
"saw by means of the astrolabe and he cried out
"in consequence, and died in the sea. And because He is reck-
"of this he is numbered with the martyrs who^^ ^"'^''
"have given themselves unto the death of Ananias,
"Azarias, and Misael. Grieve not thyself for his
"sake, for he died for My sake, and his death was
"one of exceeding wisdom, for it is said, 'God