Crossword-Solution: HERODE 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

And the wonderous workes of Iesus Christ were notified to Herode[19], not in any greate praise or commendation of his doctrine, but rather to signifie that Christ called that tyranne a fox: and that he did no more regarde his authoritie then did Iohn the Baptist, whom Herode before had beheaded for the libertie of his tonge.

But the reprobat[101], not withstanding they are compelled to acknowledge the will of God to be iust the which they haue offended, yet are they neuer inwardlie displeased, with their iniquitie, but rage, complain and storme against God, whose vengeance they can not escape[102]: as did Cain, Iudas, Herode, Iulian called apostata, Yea Iesabel; and Athalia.

Herode being stricken by the angel, did mocke those his flaterers, saying vnto them: beholde your God (meaning of him selfe) can not nowe preserue him self frome corruption and wormes.

Naogeorgus says of this day:-- Then comes the day that calles to minde the cruell _Herode's_ strife, Who, seeking Christ to kill, the King of everlasting life, Destroyde the little infants yong, a beast unmercilesse, And put to death all such as were of two yeares age or lesse.

Crashaw's longest poems--a version of Marini's _Sospetto d'Herode_, and one of the rather overpraised "Lover and Nightingale" story of Strada--are not his best; the metre in which both are written, though the poet manages it well, lacks the extraordinary charm of his lyric measures.