Luke 20:43
until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’
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ASV
Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.
KJV
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
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Psalms 110:1The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
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But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?
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Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
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Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
We must believe then that Christ is both God and man, and that His enemies are made subject to Him by the Father, not through the weakness of His power, but through the unity of their nature, since in the one the other works. For the Son also subjects enemies to the Father, in that He glorifies the Father upon earth. (John 17:6.)
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Which words are a continuation of the citation out of the above Psalm Psa 110:1; and for the application of these words, with the preceding, to the Messiah; see Gill on Mat 22:44.
Thy footstool - Literally, the footstool of thy feet. They shall not only be so far humbled that the feet may be set on them; but they shall be actually subjected, and put completely under that Christ whom they now despise, and are about to crucify.
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Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)
Let us observe in this passage — what striking testimony to Christ's divinity, the book of Psalms contains. We read that after patiently replying to the attacks of His enemies, our Lord in turn propounds a question to them. He asks them to explain an expression in the hundred and tenth Psalm, where David speaks of the Messiah as his Lord. To this question the Scribes could find no answer.
