The hundred and tenth Psalm is repeatedly quoted and ex- pounded in the New Testament, and applied to Christ to set forth tlie dignity of his person and the nature of his work. (1.) He is David's Lord. But if David's Lord, how can He be David's Son ? Tins was the question which Christ put to the Pharisees, in order to convince them that their ideas of the Messiah fell far below the doctrine of their own Scriptures. He was indeed to be David's Son, as they expected, but at the same time He was to be possessed of a nature which made Him David's Lord. (2.) In virtue of this divine nature He was to sit at God's right hand ; that is, to be associated with Him on terms of equality as to glory and dominion. Such is the Apostle's exposition of this passage in Heb. i. 13. To no angel, i. «., to no creature, has God ever said, " Sit on my right hand." The subject of this psalm is no creature ; and if not a creature, IJe is the Creator. (3.) This person, who is at once David's Son and David's Loi'd, is eternally both priest and king. This again is referred to in Heb. vii. 17, to prove that He must be a divine person. It is only because He is possessed of " an endless life," or, as it is elsewhere said, because He has life in Himself even as the Father has life in Himself, that it is possible for Him to be a perpetual priest and king. (4.) In verse 5, He is declared to be the supreme Lord, for He is called Adonai, a title never given to any but the true God.
E. The Prophetical Books.
In Isaiah iv. 2, the appearance of the Branch of Jehovah is pre- dicted, to whose advent such effects are ascribed as prove Him to be a divine person. Those effects are purification, the pardon of sin, and perfect secui'ity.
Chapter vi. contains an account of the prophet's vision of Je- hovah in his holy temple, surrounded by the hosts of adoring angels, who worship Him day and night. The person thus declared to be Jehovah, the object of angelic worship, the Apostle John tells us, xii. 41, was none other than Christ, whom all Christians and all angels now worship.
In chapters vii.-ix. the birth of a child whose mother was a vir- gin^ is predicted. That this child was the eternal Son of God, equal with the Father, is proved, (1.) From his name Immanuel, which means God with us, i. e., God in our nature. (2.) The land of Israe is said to be his land. (3.) He is called Wonder-