Full Ps 2 in context. NT anchors: Acts 4:25–26 (the early church praying Ps 2 over their opposition); Acts 13:33 (Paul's Antioch sermon — "this day have I begotten thee" applied to the resurrection); Heb 1:5; Heb 5:5; Rev 2:27, 12:5, 19:15. The "begotten today" question — eternal generation (Nicene), incarnation (classical Reformed), baptism, or resurrection (Acts 13:33 reading) — surfaced as a tradition-differentiated question; the site does not adjudicate. Featured commentary: Spurgeon, Treasury of David on Ps 2.
Psalm 2 — The Begotten Son
**Progressively Fulfilled.** Begotten-Son inaugurated at baptism / resurrection; worldwide inheritance awaiting consummation.
Primary passage:Psalm 2:7 →
Commentary
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John Calvin
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3. Let us break, etc. This is a prosopopoeia, in which the prophet introduces his-enemies as speaking; and he employs this figure the better to express their ungodly and traitorous design. Not that they openly avowed themselves rebels against God, (for they rather covered their rebellion under every possible pretext,…
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