Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Therefore being a prophet - and so penning this psalm "in the Spirit,"
And knowing - from the explicit promises made to him regarding his seed and throne (2 Samuel 7:1-29), which from thence-forward became materials for these psalmodic outpourings, in which he was carried quite beyond himself and his own times into the glorious future of the kingdom of God, (as in Psalms 89:1-52; Psalms 132:1-18).
That God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, [according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ] to sit on his throne. The words here bracketed х to (G3588) kata (G2596) sarka (G4561) anasteesein (G450) ton (G3588) Christon (G5547)] are certainly not genuine. [They are missing in 'Aleph (') A B C D, etc., the Vulgate, and nearly all ancient versions and fathers: Lachmann and Tischendorf reject them, and nearly all critics decide against them. They doubtless crept in from an explanatory gloss in the margin. epi (G1909) ton (G3588) thronon (G2362) autou (G846) also is the true reading at the end of the verse.] Leaving out this clause, the whole verse will read thus: 'Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins He would set [One] upon his throne.'