Accordingly he transposes much of the Old Testament into the New, and the New into the Old, taking care in so doing, to strip both of their simple grandeur and dignity. He swarms with anachronisms. He affects to be writer antecedent to our era, and yet speaks of Jesus as the Christ. He puts in the mouth of this personage the word, "I am Alpha and Omega," not knowing that these are Greek words, mightily astonished, no doubt, to find themselves in popular use among the Israelites of old, just as the Greek word Paradise is used, "The spirits of those who are righteous are received into the state of happiness which is called Paradise, (p. 358). The disciples of Jesus, in this precious production, bear the name of Christians, ages before the birth of Christ. Assembled together in "churches" under the charge of "high priests," they celebrate baptism and the supper, are baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire, possess the gift of tongues and interpretation preach in the Holy Spirit, declare the remission of sins, work miracles in the name of Christ, and so forth; all long before the incarnation and the day of Pentecost.