For David is not ascended Better ascended not. He went down to the grave, and "slept with his fathers."

but he saith himself in Psalms 110:1. Speaking as a prophet, and of the same person, whom, though he was to be born of the fruit of his loins, he yet in the Spirit called his Lord. The words of this Psalm the Jews in the discourse with our Lord (Matthew 22:44-45) admit to be spoken of the Christ.

TheLord [Jehovah] said unto[him whom I must even now call] my Lord as by prophetic insight I foresee how great he shall be.

Sit thou on my right hand i.e. be thou a sharer of my throne and power. This is a common Eastern expression. Cp. the request of the mother of James and John when she desired places of influence for her sons in what she supposed would be a temporal kingdom (Matthew 20:21).

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