books of the Old Testament and applies them directly to Christ. “To what angel,” he writes, “did God ever say, ‘Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee’? [Ps 2:7]. To whom did he say, ‘I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son’? [2 Sam 7:14]. Of the angels he said, ‘Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire’ [Ps 104:4], but of his Son he says, ‘Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever’ [Ps 45:6] …” (Heb 1:5–14). Both the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John interpret