Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

A CHRISTIAN ROMANCE. 525
idols, and of His going down into Sheol for this
reason, and of His putting on the body of Adam,
and of His bearing patiently both ignominy and
shame, and of His crucifixion upon the tree, and
of His side being pierced by the spear, and of
His not despising death, and of His being numbered
with the dead, and of His Resurrection on the third
day, and of His teaching unto His disciples of
the remission of sins, and of His gift of the Holy
Ghost, and of His new [p. 329] world, and of His
Ascension into heaven while His disciples were
looking on, and of His going up and sitting on
the right hand of His Father, and of His making
to come down the Comforter of the world, the
Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, and of His being with
His Father as in old time without diminution,
and without transformation and change, and of
His coming a second time with glory, having put
on that same body which Adam put on, to judge
both the quick and the dead. Now the dead are
the sinners in Sheol who shall be judged a second
time, and the living are the righteous who have
no second death but only life everlasting, and with
them shall be reckoned His servants for ever and
ever, Amen.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Here followeth the tract which Philo, the Arch- Tract of Phi-
bishop of Alexandria wrote, and he said, "I foundo°p of'^^iex-
"it inscribed in a work written upon brass among ^°'^"^-
"the archives of the kings of Macedonia."