The remarkable thing is that this enormous pretension is not ascribed to _Christ_, but is obscurely announced in certain writings of the early Christian Jews. Thus these Western Barbarians, scoffing the name of Jew, accept of his ancient and ferocious god, and adopt the barbarous _rites_ of a blood-thirsty and obscure tribe of the desert, make the records kept by the Priests of the tribe _Sacred_, and curse to _Hell_ the whole Jewish race for not accepting the interpretation of _a few of their number_--the few, and only a few, worshipping Christ as the true _Christ-God_. That is, these Barbarians better understand the subject than the people into whose hands the matter was entrusted by Divine wisdom. When one considers, then, the foundation of the great worship of the West, one wonders not at the Sects and strife. Founded in dark and cruel _institutes_ of ignorant antiquity, the attempt to engraft a better system failed, because in this attempt the Priests were still _Jews_, who, adoring Christ, adored him as Jehovah and a Jewish High-Priest. What follows becomes more intelligible, but not less astonishing. The new worship has its divine _Revelation_ from Jah, interpreted by its Priests, who introduce Christ as their great High-Priest, and the _Christ-Jehovah_ of the new worship. All are _damned_ to the everlasting Hell who do not believe these Priests, worship this new god, and accept as the very Divine _Word_ these _Jewish writings_. This superstition suited the dark imaginations of the Barbarians, and was, in truth, not unlike their own, and may have had a common origin.