Kebra Nagast

A Prophecy concerning the Coming of Christ fore He made the abysses, and before the waterfloods of the flowers appeared, and and the came forth, beauty His work before His created before the winds blew, God 1 face, and I existed conjointly with My Father." Thus his father David prophesied and said, " His name was before the sun, and before the moon, generation to generation." 2 Thus his son Solomon prophesied and said, " When He made strong the firmament above the clouds, and when He set in position the walls of the boundaries of the heavens, and when He set the sea in its appointed place, and before He founded His throne above the winds, and when He made strong the foundations of the earth, I existed conjointly with Him. I was that wherein He rejoiced continually, and day by day, and I exulted with Him at all times before His face." 3 Thus Job the Prophet prophesied and said, " The face of my God is in the East, and His light is before [that of] the sun, and the nations put their trust in His Name." 4 Thus Isaiah the Prophet prophesied and said, " Remember ye not the things of the past, and think not about the things of olden time ; behold, I will make a new thing, which shall now spring up, so that ye may know that I make a road through the desert and water floods in the wilderness and the beasts of the field shall follow after Me, and the young birds, and the ostriches. For I have given water in the desert, and made streams of water to flow in the wilderness, so that I may give drink to people and to My chosen ones whom I have gotten, so that they may declare glory, ; My My and perform My commandment." 6 Thus Solomon prophesied and said, " Who hath gone up into heaven and come down? And who hath gathered 1 Proverbs viii, 22 ff. * Ezekiel xliii, 2. 2 Psalm Ixxii, 5, 17. ' Isaiah xxxv ; 3 Proverbs viii, 30. xliii, 20. 207