QuoteQuest“Cyrus is the only foreigner in the Bible to be identified as the messiah or anointed one of Yahweh, the Israelite God. Isaiah tells us that Yahweh spoke "to his messiah, to Cyrus, whom I [Yahweh] took by his right hand to subdue nations before him" (Isa 45:1). The other people called messiah or anointed one in the Bible aren't designated Yahweh's messiah, as Cyrus is.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Cyrus the Great
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Great, Cyrus the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cyrus the Great. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great
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