Sheshbazzar

אני־אמרתי אלהים אתם ובני עליון כלכם׃

! אלהים אתם !

! ובנים אתם !






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Diogenes the Cynic

The Bible (both Testaments) is written in all caps. The English capitalization choices do not reflect any kind of nuance within the original texts.

sotto voce

So David had an 'honorific' that applied to Adam. And to Cain, etc.

Diogenes the Cynic

Yes, and could actually also be applied just to humanity in general. Jesus would have been using it in the Messianic sense, but there was really no Jewish sense in which it would indicated literal divine descendancy, nor would it have been taken that way by other Jews. The notion of a literally god sired human would have been not just un-Jewish, but offensively so.

sotto voce

So it's nonsense to say that David and Solomon had an honorific, if Cain had it, also. Capitalisation in English is not there by accident.

So what does the psalm mean?

tanya

Let's examine the original text:

Psalms 2:7 (LXX, quite possibly inauthentic, perhaps this is not an accurate translation of the original Hebrew: YHWH, יהוה

not "kurios", or its Hebrew equivalent, adonai)

με υἱός μου εἶ σύ

Mark 3:11
υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ

In other words, the "etc", above, includes JC

Chili

Yes but begotten does not mean sired as that is done only once in God and not by God.

tanya

The Latin text may offer a clue...

Psalms 2: 7
Dominus dixit ad me filius meus es tu ego hodie genui te

filius is not capitalized.

Mark 3:12
tu es Filius Dei et vehementer comminabatur eis ne manifestarent illum

Filius is capitalized....

Diogenes the Cynic

It had both a titular and (less often) a more generic application.

English capitalization in translations means nothing. There are no lower case letter in the original texts.

Assuming you're referring to the Psalm above, it's saying that Kings of Israel are "SONS OF GOD."

sotto voce

Who used this as a title?

'I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.'

Is it?