Matthew 22:41–46

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Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

42

saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.”

43

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

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‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’?

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“If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”

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Verse 45. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? It was allowed of as a certain truth, that the Messias was to be the son of David. Christ shews them by David’s own words, that he was the Lord as well as the son of David: and this is what they could not answer to. Witham.—Jesus Christ here inculcates to the Pharisees, that two natures must be admitted in the Messias; in one of which, that is in his human nature, he is the son of David, and as such inferior to him; and in the other, that is in his divine nature, he is the son of God, and consequently superior to David; whence this latter, by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, justly calls him Lord. Tirinus.—Jesus Christ does not wish them to think that the Messias is not the son of David, but only wished to rectify their opinion concerning him. When therefore he asks how he is the son, he teaches them that he is not after the manner they understand it, the mere Son, but what is much more, the Lord also, of David. Saint John Chrysostom, hom. lxxii.

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46

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.