I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Thee. Chal. weakens this text. Bible.—“I love thee as my son, and look upon thee with the same affection, as if I had this day created thee;” which might be applied to David, now settled more firmly on the throne by his late victory. But it literally refers to Christ, either born in time, (verse 1. Saint Augustine Calmet.) or baptized; (S. Just.) or rather rising again, (Acts 13:33) and born from all eternity. Hebrews 1:5. This shews him superior to the angels. The prophet had both these events in view. Eternity is always the same. Berthier. Bossuet. D.—He to whom God may speak thus to-day, at all times, must be God also. Robertson, Lexic. John 5:25.—To this Socinians can make no reply, without giving up the Epistle to the Hebrew or allowing that the apostle’s arguments were inconclusive. Bert.—The same text may thus have many literal senses. D.—The eternal birth seems here to be the chief, as from that source the nativity, baptism, priesthood, (Hebrews 5:5.) and miraculous resurrection of Christ, necessarily spring. Bible.