cultural descent. Its symbol was the heart and the fact Alexander the Great had a golden one around is neck, is not a coincidence, nor the fact that Jesus was later to become the Sacred Heart anything other than the need to encapsulate the ancient religious main principle. The Greek influence and logic into which Jesus was initiated was to turn his teachings into the material understanding of social integration and the power of cohesive identity through fraternity or brotherly love. Jesus saw Israel emerging from its embers like the Phoenix (from which Phoenicia took its name) of those self same people who dominated the earth at one time. It was his scale model and if we take what followed in the few hundred years leading to Constantine, he succeeded in setting it in motion even in those early days. It was Paul however who gave it its Roman slant and long before it was possible to integrate it into the Byzantium State religious philosophy. Constantine did that but not before these dangerous gospel preachers of liberation and neighbourly love, had been put to the sword and fire by the thousand. There was very little that harsh military authorities could do against these teachings which needed no masters. Did Jesus not realize that that was going to happen ? Could he perhaps simply not see this happening in his vision of a New Israel for all to join ? In the Syro Phoenician woman encounter where Jesus comes off badly with his harshness, it seems that despite saying that she had nothing to do with his mission of the reunification of Israel, he is unhappy about being associated with the Messiah of David. He seems to imply that the dogs are over on that side otherwise it does not make sense. When she changes her phraseology to simply Lord and Master,