Alexander the Great |
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Elder
Hulan Bass |
Alexander died in June, 323
B.C. As I have been describing in much detail, the events,
factors, etc., leading up to his final days upon this earth,
he lived a very UNHAPPY, WORLDLY life. During a "pro-longed
party or banquet, he took sick, in fact, deathly ill, from
heavy drinking; in a drunken stupor he suffered mortal agony
for 10 days, and then died." His reign as KING was very
short. He reigned for 12 years and 8 months. His body was
placed in a GOLDEN Coffin entombed in Alexandria, Egypt.
Among both the Egyptians and Greeks, he was given "divine
honors." I am not saying he deserved them. I am just saying
he was given such.
Alexander lived from 356 B.C. to 323 B.C., giving him shy of
33 years upon this earth.
During his short reign upon this earth, as a WORLDLY King,
his reign certainly did leave its MARK, carved in stone,
upon THE WORLD, in many, many fields of endeavor and
activity. Many courses of History were altered by his life.
The Historical, in which I am the most interested, to such
this study is most devoted, and that primarily being that of
LANGUAGE - the COMMON - KOINE - Greek Language, the "lingua
franca," the language of the NEW TESTAMENT of the Holy Bible
from which Textus Receptus manuscripts the King James
Translation resulted.
May you, from all this data,
from this moment forward, have greater appreciation and
understanding of the Origin of the Language of the New
Testament.
Prov. 4:7: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get
wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
According
to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander died in the
palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon between the evening
of 10 June and the evening of 11 June 323 BC, at the age of
32. |