The new Christ-God was a Jew; and, though, singularly enough, in the words ascribed to him, in those parts of the _Sacred Writings_ assigned to him and his immediate followers, there are bitter denunciations of the spirit and of the letter of much in the old, Priest-made part; and he distinctly says that his office is to give new and reformed rules; none the less, his immediate followers, being Jews, naturally looked upon him as Great High-Priest, speaking as did their ancient High-Priest (High-Priest and Christ-God)--the very "mouth-piece" [Mu-te-pi] of Jehovah! Adding to the High-Priest a _Messiahship_; for they believed him to be the mysterious _Messiah_ of their Sacred Writings, foretold by their wise _Seers_ long ages before! The great High-Priest who should deliver them from all their enemies, and lead them to a universal dominion! Very few of the Jews themselves, however, adhered to this opinion: in fact, Christ was put to a shameful death by them as an _Imposter_ [Kon-ti-fe]. And by the Jews, in general, he was and is still considered to be a misguided fanatic. The Romans at this time held the Jewish province, and continued to do so. Meantime, the followers of the Christ-God, as I have said, spread by degrees, after his death, into other Roman provinces. New Superstitions were often greedily received; the Western Barbarians had always readily adopted new gods, and new Superstitions. This idolatry was, however, held in contempt by the learned; but it slowly spread among the lower orders, and penetrated to Rome itself. The Roman soldiery, in some instances, made it conspicuous; and, after some generations, a Roman Emperor, thinking he saw some miraculous evidence of its divine force (in the workings of his own dark imagination), forced this new Superstition upon his Empire. That Empire embraced the Western world. The Barbarians who succeeded to them adopted, largely, their laws; their worship, and their religious rites. Thus, these Western Barbarians are _Christians_; and, though they detest the Jews none the less, hold to their "Sacred Writings" as the very words of Jah--whom they also worship! This they do because they follow the few Jews who accepted Christ as Jehovah, rather than the _whole people_ who rejected him!--follow the few who accepted Christ as the Messiah-God promised in the "Sacred Writings;" and hold with them that these are the only _Revelation_ of the will of Jehovah to man! By _Jehovah_ meaning the only Supreme Lord of Heaven!