Messiah

(noun.) an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742.

(noun.) the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.

(noun.) Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer.

(noun.) any expected deliverer.

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• The mind of the Jews, as we know, had crystallized about the idea of the Promise of the One True God and the coming of a Saviour or Messiah. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not the reign of your vainly-expected Messiah offers such power to your dispersed tribes as my ambition may aim at. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• They had now all identified Jesus with the promised Christ, the Messiah so long expected by the Jewish people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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