Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

550 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"died hath risen from the dead and come back hither
"and told us saying, 'Thus shall it be.' Thou
"[p. 350] knowest and art very certain that these
"things shall happen unto thee, and thou hast kept
"thy body pure and undefiled in order that thou
"mayest come guiltless before the judgment seat
"of God Almighty. And thou knowest, moreover,
"that everything shall pass away and shall be
"forgotten, and that the good things of this world
"shall not abide for ever, and that the beauty of
"form shall be destroyed, and that the love of
"children and of wife shall be forgotten, and that
"the love of riches and possessions, together with
"the taste of meats, shall no more be had in remem-
"brance. And thou hast kept in thy mind and
"hast known certainly that the day of thy death
"would come, and that thine hour would come;
"and thou hast kept all these things In thy mind,
"and hast forsaken the love of children and the
Komsat "love of klusfolk, except only that of thy mother
on""AL"xL "who gave thee birth. And now, my lord, depart
der's life, u^^ jj^y Q^ j_ ^j^g Qj^gj. ^f ^j^^ reward. Who hath
"prepared for thee a fair path and a fair habi-
"tation. Thou hast been a ploughman who drove
"his furrow straight, and like the husbandman who
"tilleth his tillage carefully, and like the hand-
"maiden who feareth her mistress, even so hast
"thou directed aright thy soul and thy body, and
"thou hast made thy kingdom to appear pure and
"right. And as for us we did not know that this
"judgment [would come upon us] by reason of gold