Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
, St. Augustine; Calmet) or baptized; (St. Justin Martyr) or rather rising again, (Acts xiii. 33.) and born from all eternity, Hebrews i. 5. This shows him superior to the angels. The prophet had both these events in view. Eternity is always the same. (Berthier; Bossuet; Du Hamel)
He to whom God may speak thus to-day, at all times, must be God also. (Robertson, Lexic.) (John v. 25.)
To this Socinians can make no reply, without giving up the Epistle to the Hebrews or allowing that the apostle's arguments were inconclusive. (Berthier)
The same text may thus have many literal senses. (Du Hamel)
The eternal birth seems here to be the chief, as from that source the nativity, baptism, priesthood, (Hebrews xv. 5.) and miraculous resurrection of Christ, necessarily spring. (Haydock)
