Psalms 102:10

"Thou, Lord in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth,

And the heavens are the works of thy hands:

They shall perish, but thou continuest:

And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up,

As a garment, and they shall be changed:

But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."

The great significance of this Hebrews quotation is that words which were originally spoken of God Himself are unhesitatingly applied to Jesus Christ. Brooks Foss Westcott, as quoted by Thomas Hewitt, declared that, "Here we have the application to the Incarnate Son of the words addressed to Jehovah."[8] F. F. Bruce's comment on this was:

"It was through the Son that the worlds were made; (and that) person to whom these words were spoken is addressed explicitly as, "The Lord," and it is God who thus addresses him."[9]

For further discussion of this passage see Vol. 10 (Hebrews) of my New Testament commentaries, pp. 30f.

It is upon this undeniable meaning of the last paragraph of this psalm that Kidner applied the whole psalm to the Messiah. He stated his conclusion thus:

"The passage in Hebrews 1:10-12 opens our eyes to what would otherwise have been brought out only by the Septuagint (LXX) rendition of Psalms 102:23f, namely that the Father is here replying to the Son, and this implies that the sufferer throughout the psalm is also the Son Incarnate.[10]

We receive as an invariable rule that one line from the New Testament regarding any Old Testament passage is worth more than a whole library of critical allegations to the contrary. On this account, we have omitted any allegations to the contrary regarding the application of this passage to Christ. We believe that it was the Spirit of God which illuminated the mind of the author of Hebrews, and that we may place absolute trust in what is here declared concerning Christ our Savior.