...their rage and imaginations would be, when they " set themselves and took counsel against the Lord and his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us ?" Did they never hear that the deriders were derided by him that sitteth in the heavens, and how...

...agreeable to Ps. ii. " The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed; saying, Let us break their bands. Yet have I set my King on my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord hath said unto...

...of Christianity than of all other causes. Yet the rulers of the world early " took counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,...their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us." The most gigantic empire of antiquity, combining in array the policy of cabinets, the prowess...

...prediction that this opposition would be ineffectual : " He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have " them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his " wrath, and vex them injus sore displeasure. Yet have I set " my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree...

...born in Bethlehem, according to Daniel's number, and the prophets' prophecy of him? And in Psal. ii. ' why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a...vain thing ; the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed.' Is not this the Messiah...

...details of the judgements of that BEING, who (while the rulers take counsel together against Jehovah and against his anointed, saying, ' ' let us break...their bands asunder ! and cast away their cords from us !") sitteth in the heavens and hath them all in derision ; — who is " speaking to them in his...

...text: • Psalm 2:2-3, The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying. Let us break their bands asunder and east away their cords from us. • Psalm 2:8-9, Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine...

...Christ"). In poetry, we call it synonymous parallelism. An example of synonymous parallelism is Psalm 2:1, "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The second clause, ("the people imagine a vain thing"), is an appositional phrase, explaining the first...

...set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Eternal Lord and against His Messiah saying, 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us' "(Psalm 2: 1-3). Very early here in the poetic treasury of The Messiah, the Psalms, the question,...

...mind." (2 Timothy 1:7). There is a laugh of faith. God laughs at his enemies: "Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of...Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall He speak to them in His wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure." (Psalm 2:1-5). "The wicked plotteth against...