comparison with, more than, beyond”. Vaughan]. : Ver. το. ἴῃ νν. 10-12 the writer intro-
duces another quotation from Ps. 102 (in LXX ΤΟΙ, 25-7). The quotation is ver- batim from the LXX except that σὺ is lifted from the fifth to the first place in the sentence, for emphasis, and that a second ὡς ἱμάτιον is inserted after αὐτούς in ver. 12. With the introduc- tory καὶ Weiss understands πρὸς τὸν υἱὸν λέγει, as in ver. 8. He is also of opinion that the writer considers that the words were spoken by Jehovah and that κύριε, therefore, must be the Messiah.
9--14.
Κύριε, τὴν γῆν ἐθεμελίωσας,
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οὗ »” a ~ ee c > . και εργα τῶν Χειρων σου εἰσὶν οι] Εσα. li. 6;
2 Peter iii.
οὐρανοί: 11. αὐτοὶ ἀπολοῦνται, σὺ δὲ διαµένεις' καὶ πάντες ὡς 7, 10.
ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσονται, 12. καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἑλίξεις] αὐτοὺς” καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται" σὺ δὲ 6 αὐτὸς εἶ, καὶ τὰ έτη σου οὐκ ἐκλείψουσι ”. 13. '' Πρὸς τίνα δὲ τῶν ἀγγέλων εἴρηκέ ποτε, “Κάθου ἐκ δεξιῶν µου, ἕως ἂν θῶ τοὺς ἐχθρούς σου ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν σου;
, πάντες εἰσὶ λειτουργικὰ πνεύματα, εἰς διακονίαν ἀποστελλόμενα διὰ
στα Χ. 12: 13; et xii. 2; ῬΈ ΟΧΙ oe Matt. xxii, 44; Marc. ΧΙ. 36: uc. xx.
πι 2 δ᾿ 14. οὔχι 42; Acts
i. 20. n Ps, xxxiv. 7, et xci. 11.
1ελιξεις ABDcKLMP, Vulg., WH ; αλλαξεις ΥΓ” 43, Tisch.
? Insert ως υµατιον with SABD*, dee: has the appearance of a homoioteleuton.
This is possible, but it is not necessary for the justification of the Messianic refer- ence. This follows from the character of the psalm, which predicts the manifestation of Jehovah as the Saviour of His people, even though this may only be in the far future (see ver. 13: ‘‘ Thoushalt arise and have mercy upon Zion. . . . So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, etc.”) Prof. B. W. Bacon of Yale has investigated this matter afresh and finds that, so far from the application of these verses to the Messiah being an audacious innovation, or even achieved, as Calvin says, “‘ pia deflectione,” ‘‘ the psalm itself was a favourite resort of those who sought in even pre-Christian times for proof-texts of Messianic eschatology”; also that “we have specific evidence of the appli- cation of vv. 23, 24 to the Messiah by those who employed the Hebrew or some equivalent text”’ and finally that by the
rendering of ον in ver. 24 (English νετ.
23) by respondit or ἀπεκρίθη '' we have the
explanation of how, in Christian circles at least, the accepted Messianic passage could be made to prove the doctrine that the Messiah is none other than the pre- existent wisdom of Prov. viii. 22-31, “through whom,’’according to our author, ver. 2, ‘‘God made the worlds.” Indeed, we shall not be going too far if with Bruce we say: “It is possible that the writer (of Heb.) regarded this text (Ps. Cii. 25-27) as Messianic because in his mind creation was the work of the pre- existent Christ. But it is equally possible that he ascribed creative agency to Christ out of τερα ἆ to this and other similar texts believed to be Messianic on other grounds.” See Preuschen’s Zeitschrift Sir N. Τ. Wissenschaft, 1902, p. 280.
In vv. 13 and 14, we have the final contrast between the place of the Son and