all the days of his life (Deut. 17:19). Thus if ‘the man’ in Psalm 1 includes the king, it is a small step to see that ‘the man’ in Psalm 1 is finally fulfilled in the righteous king, Jesus Christ. A foundation is thus laid for Luther’s jump from ‘the man’ in Psalm 1 to Jesus Christ. The basis for the development of meaning from ‘the man’ to any Israelite, to the Davidic king, to Jesus Christ is found in the divine author, who is necessary for a text to have meaning beyond the immediate historical
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