736 ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



result either from his teachings, or from his own apotheosis. 

 Moreover, a leader of a migrating portion of the tribe, 

 if in some way specially distinguished, is likely at death to 

 become himself the object of a worship competing with the 

 traditional worship, and perhaps initiating another priesthood. 

 Fluctuating conditions are thus apt, even in early stages, to 

 produce various modifications in ecclesiastical organization. 



But the complications thus resulting are small compared 

 with others which they foreshadow, and to which we may 

 now turn, our attention. 



