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the Enemy And the Archbishops (or, Patriarchs) answered and said to Gregory, the Worker of Wonders, “ Behold now, we know well, and you hast made us to understand that the Kings of Ethiopia have become glorious and great through Tsiyon. And the Kings of Rōmē also have become great because of the nails [of the Cross] that Helena made into a bridle,, which has become the vanquisher of the enemy for the King of Rōmē. And the chariot belongs to the King of Ethiopia, and it has vanquished his enemy. And tell us also how long the vanquisher of the enemy shall remain with the King of Rōmē, and the chariot containing Tsiyon with the King of Ethiopia. Tell us, for Elohim has revealed to you what has been, and what shall be, vision and prophecy, like Mosheh and Eliyahu.” And Gregory answered and said to them, “ I will reveal to you concerning the King of Rōmē when he shall transgress and shall provoke Elohim to wrath in the faith. This faith which we have ordered and laid down Genesis xlvii,. Genesis,. shall a king transgress who shall come in Rōmē, and there shall be associated with him a certain archbishop, and they shall change and pervert the word of the Twelve Shelichim, and they shall cast it aside in the desire of their heart[s], and they shall teach what they wish, and they shall turn the Scriptures to suit their own nature, even as the Apostle says, ‘ They have behaved themselves like [the people of] Sodom and Gomorrah.’ And our Yahuah said to His disciples in the Besorah, Guard you yourselves against those who shall come to you in the apparel of sheep, and who are inwardly wolves that tear.’ And when they have destroyed the 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 Kepha, and the bowels of their Archbishops shall be emptied out if they have taken their seat upon it in perverted faith. For the Malak of Elohim has been commanded to protect the throne of Kepha in Rōmē. And Elohim 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 Elohim the horse on which is the vanquisher of the enemy shall be stirred up, and shall go into the sea and perish within it. But the nails shall shine there in the sea until Mashiach shall come again in great glory upon a cloud of heaven, together with power. “ Now this has Elohim showed me in the pit. And as concerning the King of Ethiopia, and Tsiyon, the Bride of heaven, and her chariot by which they move, I will declare to you that which my Elohim has revealed to me and has made me to understand. [Ethiopia] shall continue in the orthodox faith until the coming of our Yahuah, and she shall in no way turn aside from the word of the Shelichim, and it shall be so even as we have ordered until the end of the world. And one answered and said to the Worker of Wonders (i.e. Gregory), “ Now when Samalyal comes, who is the False Mashiach (Antichrist), will the faith of the people of Ethiopia be destroyed by his attack?” And Gregory answered and said, “ Assuredly not. has not Daviyd prophesied saying, ‘ Ethiopia shall make her hands come to Elohim??1 And this that he says 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 Torah of the Shelichim.”