.Concerning The Glory Of Kings. This is the interpertation of the Patriarchs concerning splendour, greatness and dignity, and how God gave them to the childern of Adam, and especially concerning the splender and greatness of Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, of which He Himself is the maker and the fashioner, in the fortress of His Holiness before all created things, angels and men. For the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit with good fellowship and good will and cordial agreement together make the Heavenly Zion to be the place of habitation of their Glory Then the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit said, Let us make man in Our similitude and likeness, and with ready agreement and good will They were all of this opinion. And the Son said, I will put on the body of Adam, and the Holy Spirit said, I will dwell in the hearts of the prophets and the Righteous, and this common agreement and covenant was fulfilled in Zion, the city of their Glory. And He made Adam in His own image and likeness, so that He might remove Satan because of his pride, together with his host, and might establish Adam, His own plant, together with the righteous, His childern, for His praise. For the plan of God was decided upon and decreed in that He said, I will become man, and I will be in everything which I have created, I will abide in flesh. And the days that came after, by His good pleasure there was born in the flesh of the Second Zion the Second Adam, who was our Saviour Christ. This is Our Glory and Our faith, Our hope and Our life, the Second Zion. 
The Greatness Of Kings
Let us consider and let us begin to state which of the Kings of the earth, from the first even unto the last, in respect of the law and the ordinances and honour and graetness, we should magnify.
Gregory, the worker of wonders and miracles, who was cast into a cave because of his love for the martyrdom of Christ and suffered tribulation for 15 years, said: "When I was in the pit I pondered over this matter, and over the folly of the kings of Armenia, and I said, In what does the greatness of Kings consist?
Is it in the multitude of soldiers, or in the splendour of worldly possessions, or in extent of rule over cities and towns?" This was my thought each time in my prayer, and I was stirred to meditate again and again upon the greatness of Kings. And now I will begin.
The Kingdom Of Adam
And I go up from Adam and I say, God is King in truth, and for Him praise is, and He appointed under Him Adam to be King over all that He had created. And He drove him out of the garden becuase of his apostasy through his sin of the Serpent and the plotting of the Devil. And that sorrowful moment Cain was born, and when Adam saw that the face of Cain was ill-tempered and sullen and his appearance evil, he was sad. And then Abel was born, and when Adam saw that his appearance was good and his face good-tempered he said: "This is my son, the heir of my Kingdom."
Concerning Envy
When they had grown up together, Satan had envy of him, and he cast this envy into the heart of Cain, who was envious of Abel first, because of the words of his father Adam, who said: "He who hath the good-tempered face shall be the heir of my Kingdom," and secondly, because of his sister with the beautiful face, who was born with him and who had been given unto Abel, even as God commanded them to multiply and fill the earth. The face of the sister who had been born with Abel resembled that of Cain, and their father had transferred the two sisters when giving them in marriage, and thirdly, because when the two brothers offered up sacrifice, God accepted the offering of Abel and rejected the offering of Cain. Because of this envy Cain killed Abel. Thus fratricide was first created through Satan's envy of the children of Adam.
Having killed his brother, Cain fell into a state of trembling and panic, and he was repulsed by his father and His Lord. Then Seth was born, and Adam look upon him and said, "Now hath God shown compassion upon me and He hath given unto me the light of my face. In sorrowful remembrance I will console myself with him. The name of him that shall slay my heir shall be blotted out, even to his 9th generation." The Kingdom Of Seth
Adam died and Seth reigned in righteousness. And Seth died and Enos reigned, and Enos died and Cainan reign. Then Cainan died and Mahalaleel reigned: Mahalaleel died and Jared reigned, and Jared died and Enoch reigned in righteousness, and he feared God, and God hid him so that he might not see death. And he became a King in his flesh in the land of the living. After Enoch disappeared Methuselah reigned, then Lamech reigned: and Lamech died and Noah reigned in righteousness and he pleased God in all his works. The Sin Of Cain
That accursed man Cain, the murderer of his brother, multiplied and his seed did likewise, and they provoked God to wrath with their wickedness. They had not the fear of God before their eyes, and they never kept in mind that He had created them, and they never prayed to Him nor worshipped Him, nor called upon Him nor render service to Him in fear. They eat, drank and danced, and played upon stringed instruments and sang lewd; they worked uncleaness without law, without messure and without rule. And the wickedness of the children of Cain multiplied, until at length in their filthiness they introduced the seed of the ass into the mare, and the mule came into being, which God had not commanded; even as those who gave their children who are believers unto those who deny God, and their offspring became the seed of the filthy Gomorraites, one half of them being of good, and the other half of them of evil seed. As for those who do this wickedness, their judgment is ready and their error lasting. Concerning Noah
Noah was a righteous man. He feared God and kept the righteousness and the law which his fathers had declared unto him (Noah was the tenth generation from Adam), and he kept in remembrance and did what was good. He preserved his body from fornication, and he admonished his children bidding them not to mingle with the children of Cain, the arrogant tyrant and divider of the Kingdom who walked the counsel of the Devil, who maketh evil to flourish. Cain had taught them everything that God hated...Pride, boastfulness of speech, self-adulation, calumniation, false accusation and the swearing of false oaths. And besides all these things, in the wickedness of their uncleaness, which was unlawful and against rule, man wrought pollution with man and woman, worked with woman the abominable thing. The Flood
This thing was evil before God, and He destroyed them with the waters of the flood which was colder than ice. He opened the doors of heaven and the cataracts of the flood poured down; He opened the fountains that were under the earth and the flood appeared on the earth. The sinners were blotted out for they reaped the fruit of their punishment. And with them perished all beasts and creeping things, for they were all created for the glorification of Adam, and for his glory; some to provide him with food, some for his pleasure and some for the glorification of His creator so that he might know them, even as David said: "And thou hast set everything under his feet" for his sake they were created and for his sake they were destroyed, with the exception of eight souls, and seven of every kind of clean beasts and creeping things, and two of every kind of unclean and creeping things. The Covenant Of Noah
Noah the righteous man died and Shem reigned in wisdom and righteousness, for he was blessed by Noah when he said: "Be master to thy brither." And he said to Ham; "Be servant to thy brother." And he said unto Japhet; "Be thou servant to Shem my heir and be thou subject unto him." And again after the flood, the Devil, our enemy, did not cease from his hostility against the children of Noah, but stirred up Canaan the son of Ham, and he became the violent tyrant and usurper who rent the Kingdom from the children of Shem. They had divided the earth among them and Noah had made them swear by the name of his God that they would not encroach on each others boundaries, and would not eat the beast that had died of itself or had been torn by wild animals, and that they would not cultivate harlotry against the law, lest God should again become angry with them and punish them with a flood.
As for Noah he humbled himself and offered up scrifice, and he cried out and groaned and wept. And God held converse with Noah, who said unto him; "If thou wilt destory the earth a second time with a flood, blot thou me out with those who are to perish." And God said unto him; "I will make a covenant with thee that thou shalt tell thy children that they shall not eat the beast that had died of itself or that hath been torn by wild beasts, and they shall not cultivate harlotry against the law; and I on my part, covenant that I will not destroy the earth a second time with a flood, and that I will give unto thy children winter and summer, seed time and harvest, autumn and spring.
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