the rights of primogeniture, which the Only-begotten most emi nently possesses. Paul also uses similar language, Rom. viii. 29 ; Col. i. 15, 18. In this passage, the appellation, First-be gotten, includes the description of the subject of Whom the Psalm is treating, with the ^Etiology1 or reason given for the predicate, viz. He is brought in, for He is the First-begotten. — Xsys/, He says) An abbreviated mode of expression. When the bringing in was predicted, the word was given ; when the bring ing in was accomplished, the same word was fulfilled. He says, viz. GOD ; comp ver. 5. Therefore the word avr&, Him, pre sently after, refers to the Son. — K&1 KpoffxvvTjoaruffav aur£) wdvrsg ayy&Xot Qzov, and let all the angels of GOD worship Him) LXX., Deut. xxxii., before ver. 43, has these words : su^pav^rs ovpavoi dpa, avru> xai irpoffxvvTjffdruaav aiiroD iravrzc, uyy&ot &tov, which are wanting in the Hebrew text and in the Chaldee Paraphrase. Mill is of opinion that the omission was occasioned long ago by the recurrence of the verb IjTin. Then [after the words in the LXX. at the beginning of ver. 43] there follows in Moses, tvppavdqre shy fAtra rou XaoD aurou, IfDJ? D^U IJTin (where i after D is wanting), which Paul, Rom. xv. 10, also refers to the times of the Messiah. Moses, especially in the Song, wrote of Christ. Nevertheless, Ps. xcvii. 7 has, <7rpoffxv\>7)ffars ubrtfj navrsg o/ ayysXoi aurou ; and Paul refers to this psalm, for the bringing in of the First-begotten into the world, in this passage, corresponds to the inscription of the psalm in the LXX, rti Aa/3/5, OTS q yq avrou Ka&iffrarai, that is, of David, when the land is brought under his authority, as Oederus has observed.
7. ttpog, unto) [Engl. Vers. of, i.e. in reference to~] " He saith to the angels," by an indirect speech ; comp wpbg, to, xi. 18, note, [" In reference to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called."] The apostle seems also to have had in his mind ver. 20 of 103d Psalm, which immediately precedes the passage, Ps. civ. 4. — X'syv, He saith) viz. GOD, by the prophet. — 6 -TTO/^V — <pX6ya) LXX., in exactly as many letters, Ps. civ. 4. Uv&vpara, spirits, and nupbs <p Xo'ya, a flame of fire, signify not only the office of angels, but their very nature, which is no doubt of surpassing excellence, as the metaphor is taken from things the most effica-
1 -/Etiologia. See Append.