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| Chapter LXXXIII.—It is proved that the Psalm, “The Lord said to My Lord,” etc., does not suit Hezekiah.
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Chapter LXXXIII.—It is proved that
the Psalm, “The Lord said to My Lord,” etc., does not suit Hezekiah.
“For your teachers have
ventured to refer the passage, ‘The Lord says to my Lord, Sit at my
right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool,’ to Hezekiah;
as if he were requested to sit on the right side of the temple, when the
king of Assyria sent to him and threatened him; and he was told by Isaiah
not to be afraid. Now we know and admit that what Isaiah said took place;
that the king of Assyria desisted from waging war against Jerusalem in
Hezekiah’s days, and the angel of the Lord slew about 185, 000 of
the host of the Assyrians. But it is manifest that the Psalm does not
refer to him. For thus it is written, ‘The Lord says to my Lord,
Sit at My right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool. He shall
send forth a rod of power over2276
| 2276 ἐπί, but
afterwards εἰς. Maranus thinks
that ἐπί is the
insertion of some copyist. | Jerusalem, and it shall rule in
the midst of Thine2277
| 2277 Or
better, “His.” This quotation from Ps.
cx. is put very differently from the previous quotation of the
same Psalm in chap. xxxii. [Justin often quotes from memory. Kaye, cap.
viii.] | enemies. In the splendour of the saints before the
morning star have I begotten Thee. The Lord hath sworn, and will not
repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.’
Who does not admit, then, that Hezekiah is no priest for ever after the
order of Melchizedek? And who does not know that he is not the redeemer
of Jerusalem? And who does not know that he neither sent a rod of power
into Jerusalem, nor ruled in the midst of his enemies; but that it was
God who averted from him the enemies, after he mourned and was afflicted?
But our Jesus, who has not yet come in glory, has sent into Jerusalem a
rod of power, namely, the word of calling and repentance [meant] for all
nations over which demons held sway, as David says, ‘The gods of
the nations are demons.’ And His strong word has prevailed on many
to forsake the demons whom they used to serve, and by means of it to
believe in the Almighty God because the gods of the nations are
demons.2278
| 2278 This last clause
is thought to be an interpolation. | And we mentioned formerly
that the statement, ‘In the splendour of the saints before the
morning star have I begotten Thee from the womb,’ is made to
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