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Heb_1:13. Further citation from Psa_110:1, according to the LXX. The psalm was looked upon universally in the time of Christ (comp. Mat_22:44 ff.; Mar_12:35 ff.; Luk_20:41 ff.), and also in later times by many Rabbins (see Wetstein on Mat_22:44), as a prophecy relating to the Messiah; inasmuch as on the ground of the superscription ìÀãÈåÄã David himself was regarded as the author of it, and in connection with this view the reference to the Messiah was easily proved on the ground of the words at the beginning: “to my Lord speaketh Jehovah,” according to which David acknowledges, in addition to his God, also a Lord over him. The superscription ìÀãÈåÄã , nevertheless, indicates not the writer, but the subject of the psalm. It is in its historic sense an oracle pronounced to David, when the latter was preparing for war against his powerful foes. See Ewald on the Psalm.
πρὸς τίνα δέ ] δέ he in the third place, as often occurs after prepositional combinations. Comp. Klotz, ad Devar. p. 378 f.; Hartung, Partikellehre, I. p. 190 f.; Ellendt, Lexic. Soph. I. p. 397; Winer, Gramm., 7 Aufl. p. 519.
The sitting at the right hand, figure of the highest honour and dominion, see on Heb_1:3.
ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν σου ] the footstool of Thy feet. There lies in the expression an allusion to the custom of the victor of placing his foot upon the neck of the vanquished, in token of the complete subjection of the latter; comp. Jos_10:24.
ὑποπόδιον ] first used in the Greek of a later age. Comp. Sturz, de dial. Alex. et Maced. p. 199.