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As The Herod Of Our Text, This King Was Not ...
Contributed by Terry Kemp on Dec 23, 2006 (message contributor)
As the Herod of our text, this king was not above murdering three of his heirs … which prompted Caesar Augustus to say, “I’d rather be Herod’s sow than Herod’s son." It’s a pun the Greek: hus being pig and huios meaning son.