Exercitation on Hebrews, Biblical exegesis · Chapter 1 · Exposition of verse 17
Ver. 8, 9.
foreign.
foreign.foreign. But unto the Son. Syr. foreign, but of the Son he saith; which is necessarily supplyed as to the Apostles design. In the Psalm the words are spoken by way of Apostrophe to the Son; and they are recited by the Apostle as spoken of him; that is, so spoken to him, as to continue a Description of him and his State or Kingdom.
foreign, Psal. 45.7. is the place from whence the words are taken. foreign. The LXX. render these words as the Apostle. Aquila, foreign, for foreign. Thy Throne O God for ever and yet; Symmachus, foreign, Thy Throne O God is everlasting and yet; and that because it is not said foreign, but foreign, absolutely; foreign, as in the Translation of Aquila.
foreign is a Kingly Throne; nor is it ever used in Scripture for foreign, a Common Seat. foreign.Metonymically it is used for Power and Government, and that frequently. The LXX almost constantly render it by foreign, and foreign is foreign, Athenae. lib. 5. A free open Seat with a Foot-stool. And such a Throne is here properly assigned unto the Lord Christ, mention of his Foot-stool being immediately subjoyned. So God says of himself, Heaven is my Throne, and the Earth is my Foot-stool: as the Heathen termed Heaven, foreign, the Throne of God.
Thy Throne, O God, foreign, In seculum & usque; in sempiternum & perpetuo;foreign. in seculum seculorum. The Duration denoted by the conjunction of both these words, is mostly an absolute perpetuity, and a certain uninterrupted continuance, where the subject spoken of admits a limitation. Many of the Greek Interpreters render foreign by foreign, attending to the sound rather than the use and signification of the word; so is yet in our language. This we express by, For ever and ever.
foreign; the variation of foreign in the first place before mentioned, takes off from the Elegancy of the Expression,foreign. and darkens the sense; for the Article prefixed to the last foreign declares that to be the subject of the Proposition.
The words of the Psalmist are, foreign. Shelet is Virga and Sceptrum, and in this place is rendred by Aquila foreign, a Rod, a Staff, a Scepter; always a Scepter when referred to Rule, as in this place it is called the Scepter of the Kingdom.
A Scepter foreign, from foreign, rectus fuit, to be right, streight;foreign. upright principally in a moral sense: foreign, of Uprightness. foreign is properly such a Rectitude as we call streight, opposed to crooked; and Metaphorically only is it used for moral uprightness, that is, Equity and Righteousness. Syr. foreign; Boderianus, Sceptrum erectum, a Scepter listed up, or held upright. The Paris Edition, Sceptrum protensum, a Scepter stretched out; and the stretching out of the Scepter was a sign and token of mercy, Esth. 5.2. Tremelius, Virga recta, which answers mischor in both its acceptations. Erpenius to the same purpose, Sceptrum rectum, a right Scepter.
Thou hast loved Righteousness, and hated foreign, Iniquity, Unrighteousness,foreign. Wickedness; foreign, propterea, propter quod, quare, ideo, idcirco; Wherefore, for which cause. Some copies of the LXX and Aquila read foreign; so that foreign seems to have been taken into the LXX from this rendring of the words by the Apostle.
foreign God thy God, hath anointed thee. foreign.The words in Greek and Hebrew are those from whence the Names of Christ and Messiah are taken, which are of the same importance and signification, the Anointed one. And the same is expressed by the Targumist. Aquila, foreign.
Hath anointed thee, foreign,foreign. the Instrument in doing of the thing intended, expressed by the Accusative Case; whereof there are other instances in that Language. Of old the LXX read foreign, with the Oil of delight, or Ornament; so that foreign came also into the Greek Version from this place of the Apostle, and is more proper than the old reading, the Oil of rejoycing, Joy or Gladness.
foreign, before, or above those that partake with thee.foreign. Thy fellows, or companions: so Symmachus, foreign.