CHAPTER VI

HE WAS THE SERVANT OF GOD, AND THE CONQUEROR OF NATIONS

THUS, like a faithful and good servant, did he act and testify, openly declaring and owning himself the obedient minister of the supreme King. And God forthwith rewarded him, by making him ruler and sovereign, and victorious to such a degree that he alone of all the emperors pursued a continual course of conquest, unsubdued and invincible, and holding imperial power greater than tradition records to have been possessed by any before. So dear was he to God, and so blessed; so pious and so fortunate in all that he undertook, that with the greatest facility he compelled the submission of more nations than any who had preceded him, and yet retained his power, undisturbed, to the very close of his life.