Quotes about Herald

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

Paul's powerful, spirit-driven proclamation of Jesus as "son of God" can hardly be called "preaching," if by "preaching" we mean the sort of thing that goes on in churches week by week in our world. This was a public announcement, like a medieval herald or town crier walking through the streets with a bell, calling people to attention and declaring that a new king had been placed on the throne.

Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O people of every nation and language, this is what you are commanded:

Zehr, Paul M. Biblical Criticism in the Life of the Church. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald, 1986.

I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”

Saul of Tarsus, in other words, had found a new vocation. It would demand all the energy, all the zeal, that he had devoted to his former way of life. He was now to be a herald of the king.

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.

Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.