The first trace of this higher meaning appears in the 2d Psalm: “Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten Thee.” This is addressed to the Lord’s Anointed. It was well understood in the time of the New Testament; for the devil assumes it in the first temptation, when he demands an act of omnipotence from the Son of God; and the Jews sought to kill Him, “because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God,” John 5:18. This phrase rises above
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