Racial feelings also helped to widen the breach between the two parties. The Greek Christians despised the Judaic Christians in the same way as the Hellenes had looked down upon the Judæans. Paul sent out violent epistles against the adherents of the Law, and laid a curse on those who preached salvation in a manner differing from his own. These did not spare him either, and related how he had loved the daughter of a high priest; how, on being despised by her, he had in disgust written against circumcision, the Sabbath, and the Law. Thus, within barely thirty years after the death of its founder, Christianity was split into two parties, namely, a Judaic-Christian and a heathen-Christian sect. The Judaic Christians remained attached to the foundations of Judaism, compelled their converts to adhere to the Law, and clung to Jerusalem, where they awaited the return of the Messiah. The heathen Christians, on the other hand, separated themselves more and more from Judaism, and took up an inimical position towards it. CHAPTER IX. AGRIPPA II. AND OUTBREAK OF THE WAR. Position of Affairs in Judæa--Roman Oppression--Character of Agrippa II.--The last High Priest--The Zealots and the Sicarii--Eleazar ben Dinai--Quarrel with the Samaritans--Violence in Cæsarea--The Procurators--Florus--Insurrection in Cæsarea--Bloodshed in Jerusalem--The Peace and War Parties--The Leader of the Zealots, Eleazar ben Ananias--Menahem, chief of the Zealots--Massacres of Heathens and Judæans--Defeat of the Romans--The Synhedrion and its President, Simon ben Gamaliel--Position of the Synhedrion. 49.66 C. E. Whatever triumph Judaism might celebrate by the accession of proselytes, and bright as seemed the dawn of the day predicted by the prophet, when the peoples of the earth would turn their eyes to Zion, and towards the light issuing thence to illumine the human race, yet in their native land, and more especially in Jerusalem, the yoke of the Romans weighed heavily on the Judæans, and became daily more oppressive.