Messiah

Messiah (Heb. Mashiach, equivalent to the Greek Christos, 'the Anointed') designates, in the Old Testament, the great Deliverer and Saviour, whom the Jews expected to be sent by God, not only to restore their country to the power and splendour which it exhibited in the days of David, but even, by compelling the Gentiles to acknowledge the supremacy of the theocratic people, to raise it to the summit of universal dominion. See BIBLE, Vol. II. p. 118; and for the New Testament Messiah, see BIBLE, p. 123, and CHRIST, and JESUS. See also JEWS, and MAHDI.