they are to live on forevermore." Nor to the Jews alone, amid the
maze of those Corinthian columns, does the coming Shepherd speak.
The listening Roman soldier, wearing the armor of the empire on the
Tiber, comes within the circle of his promise. Into the face of
Quintus he looks and benignly says: "There are other sheep not of
the Jewish pasture, to whom I shall give this unending life. I
covet your great empire as my own. O soldier of the Caesars,
follow after me!"


Back to the camp on Scopus the soldier goes, moved to his deepest
soul. Impossible it seems to longer worship the Roman gods. When
he has described to Aulus the Feast of Dedication, he repeats the
words he has heard in the Temple cloister, and says in deepest
seriousness:

"Most unearthly is the Man on whom I have looked to-day. In his
speech a divine patience, kindness, and dignity combine. As for
the words he spoke, I cannot tell their moving power. The sayings
of our noblest Romans are feeble in the comparison. Never have I
heard another speak as he has done about a future world. Truly, an
unequaled Man is this new Teacher who is abroad in Judaea."

Sleep is of little consequence that night. Is the word of the
augur at Brundisium beginning to be fulfilled? In his tent Quintus
is wondering through the long hours if, among his people on the
Tiber, the Shepherd shall not find some sheep to whom he will give
the unending life.