Alexander the Great

 

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.