Kebra Nagast

shall a king transgress who shall come in Rome, and there shall be associated with him a certain archbishop, and they shall change and pervert the word of the Twelve Apostles, and they shall cast it aside in the desire of their heartfs], and they shall teach what they wish, and they shall turn the Scriptures to suit their own nature, even as the Apostle saith, They have behaved themc selves like [the people of] Sodom and Gomorrah.' 1 And our Lord said unto His disciples in the Gospel, Guard ye yourselves against those who shall come unto you in the apparel of sheep, and who are inwardly wolves that tear.' 2 And when they have destroyed the 6 faith the vanquisher of the enemy shall be taken away from them, and there shall be none of those who have changed our faith who shall sit upon the throne of Peter, and the bowels of their Archbishops shall be emptied out if they have taken their seat upon it in perverted faith. For the Angel of God hath been commanded to protect the throne of Peter in Rome.. And God shall take away the vanquisher of the enemy from the king who shall not guard the faith, and the Persians shall make war upon him and defeat him, and it seemeth to me that his name is Marcion the Apostate. And the King of Persia, whose name is Harenewos (Irenaeus) shall conquer (?) him, and the king shall carry him away, together with his horse, and by the Will of God the horse on which is the vanquisher of the enemy shall be stirred up, and shall go into the sea and perish therein. But the nails shall shine there in the sea until Christ shall come again in great glory upon a cloud of heaven, together with power. " And as me in the Now this hath God showed pit. concerning the King of Ethiopia, and Zion, the Bride of heaven, and her chariot whereby they move, I will declare unto you that which my God hath revealed unto me and hath made me to understand. [Ethiopia] 1 222 Matthew x, 15. 2 Matthew vii, 15.