ACC ~ Acts 2 v34 - 35

SON AND LORD OF DAVID. AUGUSTINE: We know that Christ took his seat at the right hand of the Father after his resurrection from the dead and his ascension into heaven. It is already accomplished. We do not see it, yet we believe it. We have read it in the sacred Books, we have heard it preached, we hold it by faith. And by the very fact that he was the son of David, he has become David’s Lord. That which was born of David’s seed is so honored that he is also David’s Lord. You wonder at this as if such things did not happen in human affairs. For if it should happen that someone became king, though his father was a commoner, would he not be the lord of his father? It is wonderful that it can happen: not only does the son of a commoner become king and thus the lord of his father, but the son of a layman becomes a bishop and thus the father of his father. Therefore, by the very fact that Christ took on flesh, that in the flesh he died, that in the same flesh he rose again, and in the same flesh he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father, and in the same flesh now so honored and glorified, transformed into a heavenly condition, he is still the son of David and also the Lord of David. EXPLANATIONS OF THE PSALMS 109.7.

NOT DIVINITY BUT FLESH. BEDE: For it was not divinity but flesh that was crucified, and this certainly can happen because it was able to be crucified. COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 2.34B.

A MAN RECEIVES DIVINE HONORS. THEODORET OF CYR: The words “Sit on my right hand” he speaks as to man, for they are not spoken to him that sits ever on the throne of glory, God the Word after his ascension from earth, but they are said to him who has now been exalted to the heavenly glory as man, as the apostles say, “for David is not ascended into the heavens, but he himself says that the Lord said to my Lord ‘Sit on my right hand.’” The order is human, giving a beginning to the sitting; but it is a divine dignity to sit together with God “to whom thousand thousands minister and before whom ten thousand times ten thousand stand.” DIALOGUE 2.

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