For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
For. Substantiating Hebrews 1:4.
Unto which. A frequent argument is derived from the silence of Scripture (Hebrews 1:13; Hebrews 2:16; Hebrews 7:3; Hebrews 7:14).
This day have I begotten thee (Psalms 2:7). Fulfilled at Christ's resurrection, whereby the Father "declared" His Divine Sonship, heretofore veiled by His humiliation (Acts 13:33; Romans 1:4). Christ has a fourfold right to be "Son of God":
(1) By generation, begotten of God;
(2) By commission, sent by God;
(3) By resurrection, "the first-begotten of the dead" (cf. Luke 20:36; Revelation 1:5);
(4) By actual possession, as heir of all (Dr. Pearson).
The Psalm (Psalms 2:1-12; Psalms 89:26-27) applied primarily to Solomon, of whom God promised by Nathan to David, "I will be his Father, and he shall be my son." But as the whole theocracy was of Messianic import, the triumph of David over Hadadezer and neighbouring kings (2 Samuel 8:1-18) typically foreshows God's ultimately subduing all enemies under His Son, whom He sets (Hebrew, anointed, Psalms 2:6) on His "holy hill of Zion," as King of the Jews and of the whole earth, the antitype to Solomon, son of David. "I х egoo (G1473): emphatic: the Everlasting Father] have begotten thee this day," the day of thy being manifested as My Son, "the first-begotten of the dead" (Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1:5). He had been always Son, but now first was manifested as such in His once humbled, now exalted, manhood united to His Godhead. Not, here, the eternal generation of the Son: The everlasting today in which the Son was begotten by the Father (Proverbs 30:4; John 10:30; John 10:38; John 16:28; John 17:8). The communication of the full divine essence involves eternal generation; for the divine essence has no beginning. But a definite point of time is here implied-namely, that of is having entered on the inheritance (Hebrews 1:4). The 'bringing the first-begotten into the world' (Hebrews 1:6) is not subsequent, as Alford thinks, to Hebrews 1:5. but anterior (cf. Acts 2:30-35).