“Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?”
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant David: 'Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? — the prayer cites Psalm 2:1-2, ascribing it to David via the Spirit. The nations (ethnē, nations, gentiles, peoples) raging and plotting in vain (mataios, fruitless, vain, futile) describes opposition to God's anointed (christos, anointed, messiah). The Sanhedrin's opposition is thus assimilated to the cosmic opposition to God's plan predicted in Scripture.
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