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

"wrought the will of the Most High? There shall<br />

"be given unto them a new heart, and a new<br />

"[p. 328] appearance, and they shall become spiritual<br />

"beings like the angels, and they shall participate<br />

"in His glory with the angels, and they shall be<br />

Advice to "one shepherd and one flock, to the glory of His<br />

"""^^^<br />

"Godhead and of the majesty of His power. And<br />

"to Him that created them shall they minister<br />

"continually, and the hosts of heaven shall stand<br />

"before Him in their several families and in their<br />

"several companies, together with the archangels<br />

"who sing praises unto Him ceaselessly, and they<br />

"shall give thanks unto Him and shall never be<br />

"brought to silence. And as for us, let us make<br />

"supplication unto Him that our praises may be<br />

"mingled with the praises of the spiritual beings,<br />

"and that God Almighty may make us to stand<br />

"at His right hand, together with His lambs for<br />

"ever and for ever, Amen."<br />

CHAPTER XXV.<br />

The object These are the things which <strong>Alexander</strong>, the<br />

der'sadvk:"' righteous king and prophet, [who is worthy of]<br />

mention with Elijah the Prophet and with Enoch<br />

the righteous man, wrote in the Country of the<br />

Living to instruct the generation who should come<br />

after him, and to prepare the way of the King of<br />

kings. Who was to come [and to inform them]<br />

of His work of salvation for Adam and his<br />

children, who were His handiwork and whom the<br />

Devil had led into the subjection of the error of

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