Psalm 110:1 (WEB)
The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
As quoted in the map (KJV)
Psalm 110:1 (KJV)
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Key words
- נְאֻם יְהוָה לַאדֹנִיne'um YHWH ladoni · Hebrew
- 'The LORD said unto my Lord' — the Davidic king is 'my lord' (adon); Jesus applies the verse to the Messiah (Matthew 22:44).
- שֵׁב לִימִינִיshev liymini · Hebrew
- 'Sit thou at my right hand' — the right hand is the place of shared authority.
- ἕως ἂν θῶheōs an thō · Greek (LXX)
- 'until I make' — the 'until' of Matthew 22:44 that Pitre uses to explain Matthew 1:25 (p 101).
Why it matters
The king sits at God's right hand and so shares in God's authority. Pitre uses the verse three ways: the queen at the king's right hand (Psalm 45:9; 1 Kings 2:19) shares in his authority just as the king shares in God's (pp 70–71); 'my Lord' is the royal title behind Elizabeth's 'mother of my Lord' (p 77); and Jesus' quotation of it (Matthew 22:44) shows that 'until' does not imply a change afterward (p 101).
Catechism · 1
- §659Article 6 · "He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father"Read at vatican.va
“Jesus' final apparition ends with the irreversible entry of his humanity into divine glory, symbolized by the cloud and by heaven, where he is seated from that time forward at God's right hand.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 1:9; 2:33; 7:56; Lk 9:34-35; 24:51; Ex 13:22; Mk 16:19; Ps 110:1.
Fathers and councils · 37
Gregory of Nyssa
“For if, He says, “David in the Spirit calls him Lord, how is He then his son?”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxii. 45; Cf. Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“And if David in the spirit speaks of something being said by the Lord to the Lord, it is David himself who is the speaker, being unable otherwise to make known to us the teaching of what is meant except by interpreting by voice and word his own knowledge of the mysteries given him by Divine inspiration.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…must, I say, leave the cause of these things] to God and His Word, to whom alone He said, “Sit at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“…from His Father over all creation, as this passage has it: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“Also, towards the conclusion of his Gospel, Mark says: “So then, after the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God;” confirming what had been spoken by the prophet: “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, until I make Thy foes Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“And David, knowing by the Spirit the dispensation of the advent of this Person, by which He is supreme over all the living and dead, confessed Him as Lord, sitting on the right hand of the Most High Father.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“For some of them, beholding Him in glory, saw His glorious life (conversationem) at the Father’s right hand; others beheld Him coming on the clouds as the Son of man; and those who declared regarding Him, “They shall look on Him whom they have pierced,” indicated His…” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 1; Ps. cx. 1.
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Tertullian
“…with the beasts of the field, when also little children shall play with serpents; when the Father shall have put beneath the feet of His Son His enemies, as being the workers of evil,—if in this way an end is compatible with evil, it must follow of necessity that a beginning is also compatible with it; and…” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“…He hath put all enemies under His feet;” following of course the words of the Psalm: “Sit Thou on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“Observe also the Spirit speaking of the Father and the Son, in the character of a third Person: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“But I find in Scripture the name Lord also applied to them Both: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on my right hand.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“He is seen by Stephen, at his martyrdom by stoning, still sitting at the right hand of God where He will continue to sit, until the Father shall make His enemies His footstool.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“Who has thus early put “Christ’s enemies beneath His feet” (to use the language of David), making Him more hurried than the Father, whilst every crowd in our popular assemblies is still with shouts consigning “the Christians to the lions?”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“For it was on the authority of the prophecy of Daniel that He intimated to them that He was “the Son of man,” and of David’s Psalm, that He would “sit at the right hand of God.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“The rod of Thy strength shall the Lord send forth from Sion, and He shall rule along with Thee in the midst of Thine enemies.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1, 2, and viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“It was He who “wrought in Christ His mighty power, by raising Him from the dead, and setting Him at His own right hand, and putting all things under His feet”—even the same who said: “Sit Thou on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Ps. 110:1.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
““Paid,” that is in eternal punishment; and “until” used in the same sense as in that, “Sit thou on my right hand until I make thy enemies thy footstool;” [Ps 110:1] for He does not cease to reign when His enemies are put under His feet.” — the author cites it
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Origen
“For thus says holy Scripture, “The Lord said to My Lord, Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
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Justin Martyr
“For there is written by him: ‘The Lord says to my Lord, Sit on My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool,’ as I have already quoted.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“…gates; and the King of glory shall enter;’ and again, when He says: ‘The Lord says to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.’” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““This also we add concerning the words ‘Sit thou on my right hand,’ that they are said of the Lord’s body.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For though He endured the cross, yet as God He returned to life, having trampled upon death, as His God and Father addresses Him, and says, “Sit Thou at my right hand.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“Then the Good One says to him, “Sit thou on my right hand.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“And the words, “her child was caught up unto God and to His throne,” signify that he who is always born of her is a heavenly king, and not an earthly; even as David also declared of old when he said, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
““The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool” (ver. 1).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…instance, “The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten Thee;” and again, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand;” since also the Holy Spirit is found to be called Lord, as where the apostle says, “Now the Lord is that Spirit;” and then, lest any one should think the Son to…” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1
Read the whole comment“…as meaning that because He is good, therefore He must be above thee, according to that other prophetic saying, “Till I put all Thine enemies under Thy feet.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“Which opinion is refuted by the voice of the Saviour Himself in the Gospel, when He says that David himself by the Spirit said Christ was his Lord; for the 110th Psalm begins thus, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1, quoted in Matt. xxii. 44.
Read the whole comment“Just as in that psalm also where Christ is most openly proclaimed as Priest, even as He is here as King, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“Hear Him also declared the Lord of David; let David himself declare this: “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit Thou on my right hand.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“For He did not come down to Sodom without the Father’s will, nor rain from Himself but from the Lord, to wit, by the Father’s authority; nor does He sit at the Father’s right hand by His own authority, but because He hears the Father saying, Sit Thou on My right hand.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1.
Read the whole comment“David himself saith in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, till I make Thine enemies the footstool of Thy feet (Ps. cx. 1).” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“He certainly named the Father Power, at Whose right hand the Son sits, as you read: “The Lord said unto My Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. [cix.] 1.
Read the whole comment“In the Psalms, too, you find: “The Lord said unto my Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. [cix.] 1.
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Leo the Great
“…He, “doth David in the Spirit call Him Lord, saying, the Lord said to my Lord: sit thou on My right hand till I place thy enemies as the footstool of thy feet?”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxii. 43, 44, quoted from Psalm cx. 1.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“God will send the rod of Thy power out of Sion, and Thou shalt rule in the midst of Thine enemies.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 1, 2.
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Cross-references · 56
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Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 20:41–44 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.14 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127 and 2 other places.
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Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 11.
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 13.
Cited together in De Principiis I.6.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 11.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.
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Quoted in
Matthew 22:44 takes up the words of Psalm 110:1 (16 words in common).
Mark 12:36 takes up the words of Psalm 110:1 (13 words in common).
Luke 20:42 takes up the words of Psalm 110:1 (8 words in common).
Acts 2:35 takes up the words of Psalm 110:1 (9 words in common).
Hebrews 1:13 takes up the words of Psalm 110:1 (10 words in common).