Psalm 82
Psalm 82 (Greek numbering: Psalm 81) is the 82nd psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms, subtitled "A Psalm of Asaph". God is stationing himself in the assembly of the Divine One; in the middle of the gods he judges.
Judaic use
- Psalm 82 is the psalm of the day in the Shir Shel Yom on Tuesday.[1]
- It is recited on Hoshana Rabbah.[2]
- Verse 1 is part of Mishnah Tamid 7:4 [3] and is found in Pirkei Avot Chapter 3, no. 7.[4]
Christian use
- Jesus quotes verse six in John 10:34: I said, "You are gods". Jesus uses this text to assert that he is not blaspheming when he calls himself the Son of God. The second part of verse 6: All of you are sons of the Most High does not appear in the text quoted by John. Quoting Bishop Westcott, the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges says of this text:
- "The fact that it was possible for men so to represent God as to be called gods or divine was a foreshadowing of the Incarnation. 'There lay already in the Law the germ of the truth which Christ announced, the union of God and man'.”[5]
Contextual interpretation
- This passage was produced in the context of the ancient Hebrews, and their Ancient Near Eastern environment.[6]
- Job 38 sets the scene for the divine council paradigm present throughout scripture, which is central to the work of Jesus Christ. " 'Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?' "
- "Morning stars" and "sons of God" were ancient Hebrew and Ancient Near East motifs for angels, or the divine council referred to here in Psalm 82. Genesis 6:1-4 has "sons of God" who illicitly sire the Nephilim. Isaiah 14:12 has "Day star" and v13 "the stars of God". Both of which are polemics against Satan, the chief rebel of the sons of God. Hence one interpretation of Psalm 82, is that God is holding court in the divine council of the elohim (gods), and sentencing them for their malpractice after assigning the postdiluvian nations to their liege, after the Tower of Babel apostasy, in Deuteronomy 32:8.
- In John 10:34, Jesus alludes directly to Psalm 82, where the elohim (gods) receive the word of God in the form of judgment and condemnation. Against his accusers Jesus was appealing to the precedent already established in their Torah, which referred to God's holy ones, or his divine council, as "gods" (elohim).[7]
See also
References
- ↑ The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 164
- ↑ The Artscroll Tehillim page 329
- ↑ The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 479
- ↑ The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 559
- ↑ Quoted in Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Psalm 82, accessed 23 May 2016
- ↑ Heiser, Michael (2015). The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (Kindle edition)
|format=requires|url=(help). Bellingham, WA 98225, USA: Lexham Press. pp. 23–38. ISBN 978-1-57-799556-2. - ↑ Heiser, Michael (2015). The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (Kindle edition)
|format=requires|url=(help). Billingham, WA 98225, USA: Lexham Press. pp. 163–171. ISBN 978-1-57-799556-2.
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.