MARK 12:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.”
David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet — Psalm 110:1 is quoted: David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, calls the Messiah my Lord. If the Messiah is merely David's descendant, David would not call him Lord — a son is not his father's lord. The Psalm's testimony that David called the Messiah Lord implies that the Messiah's identity transcends the son-of-David category.
Church Fathers on Mark 12:36
Because Christ was coming to His Passion, He corrects a false opinion of the Jews, who said that Christ was the Son of David, not his Lord.
That is, He openly speaks to them of Himself, that they may be inexcusable.
But the putting down of His enemies by the Father, does not shew the weakness of the Son, but the unity of nature, by which One works in the Other; for the Son also subjects the Father’s enemies, because He glorifies His Father upon earth.
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