What difference is there between the figure of the conqueror and that of the pirate? |
Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own. |
Both men are time-servers who, at a single nod from the conqueror, will sink into primitive obscurity. |
These were no doubt portraitures of both heaven and earth, over which he, as their conqueror, was given all power. |
And William the conqueror may have spoken French but his immediate ancestry was Norse. |
The alliance wrong-foots the opposition who are not expecting a power on the brink of elimination to switch sides to its conqueror. |