PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS December 24, 1979 Issue

The news of 2,000 years ago and of today

"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king ..."^{Matt. 2:1;}

Surely, on that first Christmas Day, Herod seemed the newsworthy person. He was a client-king, official friend of Rome, in Rome's fabulous age. He had the right connections, had the ear of Augustus himself. A man of power.

Herod was conspicuously wealthy. The growing prosperity of his time, with expanding trade and commerce, played into his active hands. And his massive building projects trumpeted his success even to the world outside Judea.

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