Word: oppressor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brooke Herford preached in Appleton Chapel last evening on the world which surrounded Christ's early years. The Jews, long oppressed and maddened by the Roman rule were still clinging to their expectation of a Messiah; a king who was to overthrow the oppressor and give Jerusalem the supreme power. But at the time of Christ's birth, cruelty and bloodshed were constantly increasing, with Herod as their chief agent. The fact that the slaughter of the innocents is not noticed in secular history is significant of his career. No notice of the massacre of a few babies could...
...government of the people was not at all intricate, consisting of a king, who was more a "father of the people" than an oppressor, a number of minor princes, and a council of the elders. The king interfered very little in the affairs of the people, but rather took the part of a champion of the weak against the strong...