with reference to Jesus (rooted, again, in Jesus’ own usage). Through its messianic exegesis of these two Psalms references and other similar passages, the early church came to confirm what it was already beginning to believe on the basis of Jesus’ self-consciousness and his resurrection. In Psalm 110:1, the early church found biblical grounding for the notion of Jesus’ resurrection as his exaltation to God’s right hand (see esp. Acts 2:34–35). Importantly, the early Christians did not view Jesus’