David calls him Lord. How then can he be his son? — David calls him Lord: the paradox. If the Messiah is merely David's descendant, why would David call him Lord? The answer (not stated but implied): the Messiah is both David's son (incarnate in the Davidic line) and David's Lord (divine in origin). The question is Jesus' implicit Christological claim.

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