Kebra Nagast

Concerning the return of Zion shall continue in the orthodox faith until the coming of our Lord, and she shall in no way turn aside from the word of the Apostles, and it shall be so even as we have ordered until the end of the world. And one answered and said unto the Worker of " Wonders (i.e. Gregory), Now when Samalyal cometh, who is the False Christ (Antichrist), will the faith of " the people of Ethiopia be destroyed by his attack ? And Gregory answered and said, " Assuredly not. Hath not David prophesied saying, Ethiopia shall make her hands come to God ? ?1 And this that he saith meaneth that the Ethiopians will neither pervert nor change this our faith and what we have ordered, and the faith of those who were before us, the teachers of the Law of the Apostles." ' 114. CONCERNING THE RETURN OF ZION And the Tabernacle of the Law of God, the Holy Zion, shall remain here until that day when our Lord shall dwell on Mount Zion ; and Zion shall come and even shall appear unto all prepared, with three seals as it saith in the Old Law and in the as Moses gave her " New, At the testimony of two or three [witnesses] 2 And then, saith Isaiah the everything shall stand." " shall be The dead raised up, and those who Prophet, are in the graves shall live, for the dew which [cometh] from Thee is their life." 3 And when the dead are raised up, His mercy whereby He watereth the earth shall cease they shall stand up before Him with the And Enoch and Elias works which they have done. ; come, being alive, so that they may testify, and Moses and Aaron from the dead shall live with everyshall one. And they shall open the things that fetter her (i.e. Zion), and they shall make to be seen the Jews, the 1 Psalm Ixviii, 31. a Deuteronomy xix, 15 ; Matthew xviii, 1 6 inthians xiii, I. 3 ; John viii, 17 ; z Cor- Isaiah xxvi, 19. 223