Under the designation of _Tammuz_, this god was worshiped, and had his altar even in the Temple of the Lord which was at Jerusalem. Several of the Psalms of David were parts of the liturgical service employed in his worship; the 110th, in particular, is an account of a friendly alliance between the two gods, Jehovah and Adonis, in which Jehovah adorns Adonis for his priest, as sitting at his right hand, and promises to fight for him against his enemies. This god was worshiped at Byblis in Phœnicia with precisely the same ceremonies: the same articles of faith as to his mystical incarnation, his precious death and burial, and his glorious resurrection and ascension, and even in the very same words of religious adoration and homage which are now, with the slightest degree of variation that could well be conceived, addressed to the Christ of the Gospel. The prophet Ezekiel, when an exile, painted once more the scene he had so often witnessed of the Israelitish women in the Temple court bewailing the death of Tammuz.[220:2] Dr. Parkhurst says, in his "Hebrew Lexicon": "I find myself _obliged_ to refer Tammuz, as well as the Greek and Roman Hercules, to that class of idols _which were originally designed to represent the promised Saviour_ (Christ Jesus), the desire of all nations. His other name, Adonis, is almost the very Hebrew word 'Our Lord,' a well-known title of Christ."[220:3] So it seems that the ingenious and most learned orthodox Dr. Parkhurst was _obliged_ to consider Adonis a type of "the promised Saviour (Christ Jesus), the desire of all nations." This is a very favorite way for Christian divines to express themselves, when pushed thereto, by the striking resemblance between the Pagan, virgin-born, crucified, and resurrected gods and Christ Jesus. If the reader is satisfied that all these things are types or symbols of what the "_real Saviour_" was to do and suffer, he is welcome to such food. The doctrine of Dr. Parkhurst and others comes with but an ill grace, however, from Roman Catholic priests, _who have never ceased to suppress information when possible_, and when it was impossible for them to do so, they claimed these things to be the work of the devil, in imitation of their predecessors, the Christian Fathers. Julius Firmicius has said: "The devil has his Christs," and does not deny that _Adonis_ was one. Tertullian and St. Justin explain all the conformity which exists between _Christianity_ and _Paganism_, by asserting "that a long time before there were Christians in existence, the devil had taken pleasure to have their future mysteries and ceremonies copied by his worshipers."[221:1] _Osiris_, the Egyptian Saviour, after being put to death, _rose from the dead_,[221:2] and bore the title of "_The Resurrected One_."[221:3] Prof. Mahaffy, lecturer on ancient history in the University of Dublin, observes that: