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

with his hand, and it received him and carried<br />

him over and then bending down its top deposited<br />

Gerasimas on the Island. Then he arose and<br />

marched on, and came to the people thereof. And<br />

it came to pass that when they saw him coming<br />

towards them they rose up and went to meet him,<br />

and they sat down with him that they might ask<br />

him questions. And they said unto him, "Father,<br />

"whence comest thou.'' What manner of life hast<br />

"thou led.'' With whom hast thou passed over<br />

GerSsimds "here? Where is thy country.'' And what is thy<br />

and the<br />

i- 1,) a 1 •<br />

Blessed con- "condition? Aud the saint answered and said<br />

unto them, "I belong to the country of Greece,<br />

"I sprang from the house of my father, and am<br />

"of no account. I came into [p. 362] Jerusalem,<br />

"and I went round about among the holy places.<br />

"I came to the Jordan and was baptized at the<br />

"place where Christ was baptized. I crossed over<br />

"the Jordan and came to a certain place called<br />

"the House of John, wherein dwelt fifty and nine<br />

"monks, and I entered therein and was blessed<br />

"by them. I saw their mode of life, and their<br />

"fastings, and their prayers, and their vigils, and<br />

"I stretched out my hands and lifted up my eyes<br />

The narra-"to God Almighty, aud I said, 'O Lord, grant<br />

Tisimis. "that I may walk in Thy commandments. And as<br />

"David saith. Forget thy nation and thy father's<br />

"house," so likewise have I forsaken my nation<br />

"and my father's house, and I have driven out<br />

' Psalm xlv. 10.

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