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Continuation of excerpts from the Introduction to Our Translated Gospels: Some of the Evidence, by Charles Cutler Torrey:
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Continuation of excerpts from the Introduction to Our Translated Gospels: Some of the Evidence, by Charles Cutler Torrey:
Even more like the picture in Habakkuk is that in Ps. 2, where the nations and the kings of the earth set themselves "against Yahweh and his Anointed," who is promised the power to "break them with a rod of iron, dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel"; words repeated as uttered to the Messiah, the Son of David, in Ps. So., 17:26. In verses 6-8 of this second psalm, the coming King, the Son of God, is also given the promise:
a saying paraphrased from Is. 55:4 f., where the prophet represents Yahweh as making allusion to the promise to David, and then as saying to the coming King: "Behold, I make you* . . . the leader and commander of the peoples; you shall call nations that you know not," etc.
There are in the Psalter numerous passages of this nature, certainly conceived as definitely Messianic, which are so casual or cryptic as to leave us in uncertainty, in our inability to follow the imagination of the writer. The Messianic doctrine was so ancient, so firmly established, with its various formulae and its evasive allusions so universally understood, that there was no need of elaboration or explanation. There is here no space for discussing further examples.
Ask of me, and I will give you the nations as your portion,
The uttermost parts of the earth as your possession;
The uttermost parts of the earth as your possession;
a saying paraphrased from Is. 55:4 f., where the prophet represents Yahweh as making allusion to the promise to David, and then as saying to the coming King: "Behold, I make you* . . . the leader and commander of the peoples; you shall call nations that you know not," etc.
There are in the Psalter numerous passages of this nature, certainly conceived as definitely Messianic, which are so casual or cryptic as to leave us in uncertainty, in our inability to follow the imagination of the writer. The Messianic doctrine was so ancient, so firmly established, with its various formulae and its evasive allusions so universally understood, that there was no need of elaboration or explanation. There is here no space for discussing further examples.
*As I attempted to show in The Second Isaiah, the suffixed pronoun must originally have been second person; the direct address should begin in verse 4, not in the following verse.
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