Verse 6
"Yet I have set my King
Upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will tell of the decree:
Jehovah said unto me,
Thou art my Son;
This day have I begotten thee."
God Himself upon the occasion of Jesus' baptism made it clear enough who this Son is, thundering the message from heaven itself (Matthew 3:17). In the light of that testimony, who should dare to affirm otherwise?
"My holy hill of Zion." Of course, this is a reference to Jerusalem, referred to here as holy, meaning not that Jerusalem's citizens were holy, but that God had recorded his name there and that, in time, the Anointed would appear on her streets, that there he would be crucified, buried, and rise from the dead, and that there "The word of the Lord should go forth from Jerusalem."
"The Messianic King now speaks, quoting the promise given to David, the father of the dynasty, through Nathan the prophet. See 2 Samuel 7:4-17."[3] Israel's King David was indeed an Old Testament type of God's only begotten Son, as indicated in the very first verse of the New Testament; "Jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham." One of the favorite pre-Christian names of the Messiah was "The Son of David," but the Divine reference was only and always, not to some earthly successor to the Davidic throne, but to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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