"Herod" is an image of cunning, cruel politicians who reign over the nations, hating the righteous, exposing their cruel, godless power.

"Herod" is also a symbol of the power that rules in the spiritual-image "Bethlehem" and in "Judea," that is, in the Christian world.

(Herod - Ruler of Galilee and Perea from 4 B.C. to 39 A.D., son of King Herod the Great and one of his wives, the Samaritan woman Malthaca).