in our translation, " the everlasting Father." — mpi %$ of which we speak) We speak, we teachers, ch. v. 11, note. By this clause the force of a proposition is obtained for [is imparted to] this short verse. And the proposition is, all things shall be subjected to Jesus Christ.
6. Aie/tctprbfan de vov rig, but one in a certain place testified) one, viz. a witness. David did not here speak of himself; wherefore it was not necessary to introduce his name. Nor should we stop short with the intermediate messengers, but should look to the word of GOD, when it has testified once for all. David testified in Ps. viii., to which this chapter often refers, even from the tenth verse, as we shall see. As, but, forms an antithesis between the angels and Him to whom the psalm testifies that all things are subjected. — ri striv — voduv auroD) So altogether the LXX., Ps. viii. 5—7. That clause, and Thou hast set Him over the works of Thy hands, the apostle does not assume, at least in his reasoning, but deduces the " all things" from what goes before and follows in the psalm. There are mentioned in that clause the works of GOD'S Jiands, i.e. heaven, the moon and stars. (The sun is wanting, either because, as the slavery and deliverance of his seed was shown to Abraham in the night time, Gen. xv. 12 ; so the humiliation and exaltation of the Messiah were shown to David and sung by him during the night ; as also the word of the Lord seems to have come to Job by night, Job xxxviii. 7, 31, 32 ; or because Messiah, when forsaken on the cross, saw the moon and stars after that the sun was darkened.) But the authority of Christ continues beyond the duration of these. — ri eonv avfyurtoi) what is man with respect to the works of GOD, the heaven, etc. ; but what is man with respect to God Himself? The expression is thus more humble than if he had said : Who am I ? A man, without the article, as one of many. 6^13 N, a man, subject to sufferings and death. — or/ fAi/Avfaxy) avrov, that Thou art mindful of him) Such is the description of the Messiah's con dition, in which He might seem to have passed away from the remembrance and care of God. Whence, with wonderful humilty, He is astonished Himself at this very thing, the re membrance of Him : how much more at so great glory prepared for Him ? It could not be otherwise, Acts ii. 24 ; but He prays