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...HEROD-Jacob S. Minkin-Macmillan...
...Testament Herod figures as the King of Judea who, when he heard reports of the birth of Christ, ordered all babes in Bethlehem under two years of age put to death. "As though the list of his numerous crimes were not yet long enough," comments Author Minkin, ". . . his name was taken for what the world considers one of the blackest and most abnormal outrages." Probably Herod died at Jericho, four years before the birth of Christ, at the age of 70, after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with...
...Herod was of desert stock, an Idumean, traditionally pagan in the Jewish world. He became king of Judea principally through the intrigues of his father, Antipater, who had been active in fomenting civil war in Palestine in the hope of securing Roman intervention. At that time Pompey, on a triumphal march from Armenia back to Rome, stopped to add to his laurels by putting Judea under Roman domination, left Antipater the real power behind a dummy king. Herod was thus always the representative of Rome in a remote and hostile country, first won recognition when he cleaned out rebellious patriots...
Hearst, About the time that Gossipmonger Walter Winchell, who made his reputation by predicting the birth of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. four months in advance, was proclaiming himself "ashamed" of being a U. S. citizen, the Press at large concluded that Hero Lindbergh's real Herod was Yellow Journalism...
...Matthew, 2:13-14: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thce word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother !>v night, and departed into Egypt...