GOD, as in the preceding verse. — zt.aiov aya\\ia<swg) the oil of gladness, and everlasting joy, is the Holy Spirit. — Kapa rovg (j,er6%ou$ ffov, above [as compared with] thy fellows) These fellows may seem to some the angels ; for even the angels have the name of gods, sons of God, morning stars, although in a far lower sig nification ; and the name of A ngel is wont to be given to the Son of GOD, although with a more majestic meaning. And indeed the Son of God has the angels as His companions, Gen. xviii. 2 ; Job xxxiii. 23 ; Ps. Ixviii." 18 ; 1 Tim. iii. 16 ; Matt. xxv. 31 : and it might have seemed proper that He should rather assume [take to Himself as associates] angels than the seed of Abraham, if a different economy [dispensation] had not demanded some thing different, ch. ii. 16 ; and that very humiliation, of which Ibid., ver. 7, takes for granted intercourse with them. In short, the 45th Psalm itself addresses Christ as God in this very verse, and a little before as "VQJ, brave, strong, ver. 4 ; a term applied to the angels, Ps. ciii. 20. Therefore the angels may appear to be called the fellows of Christ, especially since Paul refers all the sayings here quoted to the superiority of Christ above the angels. Nevertheless the peculiar relationship of Christ to men leads us to conclude, that men are here meant by " His fellows," ch. ii. 11, etc. For the Bridegroom has His companions, as the Bride has hers, Ps. xlv. 14 : and there is the same comparison, ibid. ver. 2, Thou art fairer than the sons of MEN.
10. Ka/, and) This particle connects the testimonies. — ai> %ar apX&S — OL/JC £xXe/-\}/oytf/) Ps. cii. 26-28 ; LXX. xar ap^as rf:), Kvpis, rqv yqv, etc., the remainder in the same words. The time of the creation is intimated, to which the end of the world is opposed ; and by this very fact, Dissertation iii. of Artemonius is done away with. — <n), Thou) The same to whom the discourse is directed in the preceding ver. — Kvpis, 0 Lord) The LXX. have repeated that from ver. 23 of the same psalm. Christ is preached (proclaimed) even in those passages, where many might contend that the writer was principally speaking of the Father. — yw, the earth : ovpavot, the heavens) A gradation. There is no reason why the angels may not be included in the word heavens, as the creation of man is included under the word earth, which passes away.
11. Auro/, they) the earth and heaven. — acroXoDvra/, shall