Kebra Nagast

Concerning the Beginning know not what they do." l They likened their Creator had been created, and they slew a sojourner who did not belong to mortal creatures, and He was not a thing that had been made with the hand. But He Himself was the Maker, and He Himself was the Creator, Light of Light, God of God, Son of the to something that Father, Jesus Christ. He was the Refuge, He was the Feeder, He was the Director He, Whose domain was above what is on high, and above everything, abased Himself. Even as Isaiah, the man of keen words among the Prophets, " ; He was a humble man, and His appearance was rejected, like a root He hid Himself in parched ground, He came in the flesh, a being of the earth, [though He saith, was] the Sustainer of the universe and the Saviour of the universe." 2 And David ascribeth beauty to Him, " saying, On Thy beauty 3 and in Thy goodliness of " His form is more goodly form." And again he saith, than that of the children of men." And again he saith, " Graciousness is poured forth from Thy lips." And " again he saith, Direct aright with prosperity, and reign 4 through righteousness, and justice, and sincerity." And again he saith concerning the Jews, the enemies " of the truth, Thine arrows are sharp and strong in " 6 " the hearts of the haters of the King it is ; right that " unto they should transfix their hearts," He saith those who did not wish Me to be King, and they shall be brought before Me and pierced " [with spears]. And " I have again Isaiah saith concerning the Jews, sought for them and found them not I have called unto them and they have not answered Me I have loved them and they have hated Me." 8 And again David " saith, They returned unto me evil for good, and they hated me in return for my love for them." 7 And again ; ; 1 Luke xxiii, 34. 4 Psalm xlv. 2 Isaiah liii, 2 ff. s Compare Psalms xlv, 5 3 Psalm 1, 2. 6 Isaiah xlv, 12. N ; Iviii, 7. * Psalm cix, 5. I 93