Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

526 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"Now we know of a certainty that Alexander
"ruled over fourteen kings before the coming of
"our Lord Jesus Christ. He kept his body pure
"and undefiled by fornication, and he removed and
"put away every idol, and image, and priest of
"a false god; he drove out fiends and devils, and
"shut in vipers by means of his pure prayers.
"He made manifest the kingdom of God Almighty,
"and the truth, and purity, and splendour of God
"his Lord, in nobleness of life, and in righteousness
"and peace; this was the kingdom of God Almighty.
"He made war upon those who had rebelled against
"God, and upon the soothsayers who had not His
"[p. 330] law in them, but those who had placed
"their confidence in God Almighty and in their
"king he had no desire to attack, and he never
"shed the blood of any of them.'"
The author's The praycr of the king anointed of God, and
that which he doeth in purity are acceptable, for
God never maketh him to inflict punishment or
to gird himself with the sword in vain. And thy
throne was covered with purple like unto blood,
O Alexander, [to shew] that God would work His
will by thy hand upon those who transgress the
law, and upon those who lie in ambush on the
way, and upon those who slay the souls of their
neighbours with crafty malice. For the prophets
of false gods and for idolaters who have not kept
the law of God Almighty slaughter is meet, for
The quotation seems to end here.