Hello, I'm new and have a question.

[A Thing of Eternity]

It's basically the same as Messiah as far as I know, so yeah, saviour.

[SadisticCynic]

Messiah/Christ literally means 'the anointed one', but I figure you probably already know that...

[SandChigger]

Since I'd never thought to check it before, I just searched my files for "Maud'Dib"; turned up 1 hit.

"You do not beg the sun for mercy."
—Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

That's the epigraph for Ch.12 of Messiah. Not sure whether it's a scan error, artifact of my processings of the files, or a typo in the original book that was scanned.

Either way, corrected!

[A Thing of Eternity]

Messiah/Christ literally means 'the anointed one', but I figure you probably already know that...

Yup, but doesn't hurt to point it out! I actually didn't know Christ meant that, always wondered what his whacky last name was all about.

[SadisticCynic]

I think that Messiah is ma.shi'ach in Hebrew, and Christ is Kristos in Greek, and they are both equivalent. Used to confuse me that we could call Jesus 'The Christ'.

[A Thing of Eternity]

I'd figured out that it was a title, obviously something spiritual, but that was about as far as I got!

The funny thing as I understand it that most people don't know about the Messiah, is that the Jews had several, and they were'nt really looking for a spiritual saviour at all - they wanted someone with a bloody army to come help, that's all.

[SadisticCynic]

Indeed, I think that the high priest was technically ma.shi'ach as well.