The final verse of the Psalm, verse 8, has God in the future tense "inheriting the nations", where previously "the Son" inherited the nations in Psalm 2, and the believing community inherits the nations in Psalms 25 and 37.This passage was produced in the context of the ancient Hebrews, and their Ancient Near Eastern environment.Against his accusers Jesus was appealing to the precedent already established in the Torah, which referred to God's holy ones, or his divine council, as "gods" (elohim). 'There lay already in the Law the germ of the truth which Christ announced, the union of God and man'.” Jesus alludes directly to Psalm 82, where the elohim (gods) receive the word of God in the form of judgment and condemnation. "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. Quoting Bishop Westcott, the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges says of this text: The second part of verse 6: All of you are sons of the Most High does not appear in the text quoted by John. Jesus uses this text to assert that he is not blaspheming when he calls himself the Son of God. Jesus quotes verse 6 in John 10:34: I said, "You are gods".Verse 1 is part of Mishnah Talmud 7:4 and is found in Pirkei Avot Chapter 3, no.Psalm 82 is the psalm of the day in the Shir Shel Yom on Tuesday.
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