And, further, with a view to persuade you that ye have no understanding of the Scriptures, I will mention also another Psalm spoken to David by the Holy Spirit, which ye say is spoken with reference to Solomon who also himself became king. But it too has been spoken with reference to our Christ. Now you deceive yourselves by equivocal forms of speech. For where the Law of the Lord is said to be blameless ye expound it not of that (law) which shall be after the Law given by Moses, but of this itself, though God cries aloud that He will appoint a new Law and a new Disposition.
And where there is read: O God, give Thy judgment to the king, since Solomon has been king ye say that the Psalm is spoken with reference to Him, though the words of the Psalm distinctly proclaim that it has been spoken with reference to the everlasting King, that is to say with reference to Christ. For Christ is proclaimed as King and Priest and God and Lord and Angel and Man and Chief Captain and Stone and Child born, and liable to suffering at first, then as going up to heaven and coming again with glory and having His kingdom for ever, as I prove from all the scriptures.
But that ye may perceive what I now say, I tell you the words of the Psalm. These are they: O God, give Thy judgment to the King and Thy righteousness to the Son of the King, to judge Thy people in righteousness and Thy poor in judgment. Let the mountains lift up peace for the people, and the hills righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people, and save the sons of the needy, and shall humble the false accuser; and shall remain along with the sun, and before the moon, for generation and generation. He shall come down as rain on a fleece, and as drops that drop on the earth.
In His days shall righteousness arise, and abundance of peace until the moon be removed. And He shall act as lord from sea unto sea, and from rivers unto the ends of the world. Before Him shall Ethiopians fall down, and His enemies shall lick dust. Kings of Tarshish, and islands, shall bring gifts, kings of Arabia and of Sabba shall bring gifts, and all the kings of the earth shall do homage to Him, and all the nations shall serve Him; because He delivered the poor from the mighty, and the needy who had no helper.
He shall spare poor and needy, and save the lives of the needy; from usury and from injustice shall He ransom their lives, and precious shall His name be in their sight. And He shall live, and there shall be given to Him of the gold of Arabia, and they shall pray continually concerning Him; the whole day long shall they bless Him. And there shall be a stook of corn in the earth, above the tops of the mountains shall it be raised high, above Lebanon shall its fruit be, and they shall break forth in flowers out of the city as grass of the earth.
His name shall be blessed for ever; before the sun doth His name continue. And all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in Him; all the nations shall count Him happy. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doeth wondrous things, and blessed be the name of His glory for ever and for evermore; and the whole earth shall be filled with His glory. Amen, Amen. And at the end of this Psalm which I have quoted is written: The hymns of David, son of Jesse, are ended.
And that Solomon was a great and notable king, in whose time the House which is called (the Temple) in Jerusalem was built up, I am aware. But that nothing of all that is said in the Psalm fitted him, is clear. For neither did all the kings do him homage, nor did he reign as far as the ends of the world, nor did his enemies fall down before him and lick dust.
Further, I dare also to mention things which are recorded in the Kings as done by him, namely that because of his wife he practised idolatry in Sidon, a thing which they who from among the nations have come by Jesus who was crucified to know God the Maker of all do not suffer to be done. On the contrary, they suffer every kind of outrage and punishment, even to death itself, that they should neither commit idolatry nor eat things offered to idols.