Quesnel: Moral Reflections on the Gospels Vol 1

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way to salvation, the Bible of the simple and igno-
rant, and the book which even the most learned will
never thoroughly understand in this life.
Sect. V. Christ the Son and Lord of David.
"41. f While the Pharisees were gathered to-
gether, Jesus asked them, 42. Saying, What think
ye of Christ ? whose son is he ? They say unto him,
The son of David.''
Jesus here asks a question in his turn, not to
tempt, but to instruct his disciples; to confound the
obstinate, to point out the source of all their captious
questions, namely, their ignorance of the prophecies
which foretold the Messias; to furnish his church
with weapons against the Jews in all ages ; and, by
this last public instruction, to establish the truth of
his divinity, incarnation, power, and kingdom, as the
foundation of all religion.
" 43. He saith unto them. How then doth David
in spirit call him Lord, saying, 44. The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till
I make thine enemies thy footstool? 45. If David
then call him Lord, how is he his son?"
This psalm appears to be a prophecy concerning
the Messias, by the explication of Christ himself,
from the confession of his enemies, and according to
the general opinion of those times. We herein find
sufficient proof of the divinity of Christ the son of
David, not in the manner in which the Jews understood
it, but as David had foretold it by the Holy
Ghost : Christ being at the same time the Son of
God, equal to him in power, and heir of all things.
His kingdom will not have its full consummation