Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 45:6

6. Thy throne, O God , is for ever and ever : the scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter .

It is most Evident, that the Speech is still continued to the same Person, whom he calls King, v. 1. 11. and here God, Which change of the Title was very expedient, and in some sort necessary to give us a true understanding of this Psalm▪ and to assure us that he doth not speak of Solomon (to whom neither these nor the foregoing nor the following Words agree, because his Reign was peaceable and short, and stained with many and great iniquities) but a far greater King, even of the Messias, who is not onely a Man, but also the mighty God, as he is called, Isa. 9. 6. and as the Apostle sol[illegible: 1+ letters]dly proves from this place, Heb. 1. 8. For though the Name of Elohim, or God, be sometimes given in Scripture to some Creatures, yet in those Cases it is always Clogged with some diminishing Expression, signifying that they are onely made or called Gods, and that onely for a certain Time and Purpose, as is manifest from Exod. 4. 16. and 7. 1. Psal. 82, 6. and it is no where put simply and absolutely for any Person, but him, who is God blessed for ever, Rom. 9. 5.

To wit, Properly and in thine own Person, in which as he Lives for ever, so he must necessarily Reign for ever: whereas David, whose Throne is said to be Established for ever: 2 Sam. 7. 16. was a Mortal man, and therefore that Promise was not intended of, nor could be fulfilled in, his Person, without including his Posterity. And as he here gives to the Messias, the Name of God, which was never given to David nor Solomon, so he ascribes an everlasting Kingdom to him, in such a Sence as it was never given to them. So Dan. 2. 44. and 7. 14.

It is not strange that thy Throne is not liable to the same uncertainties, and Causualties, with the Thrones of earthly Princes, because their Scepters are commonly managed with great injustice and manifold iniquities, which lay the Foundation of their overthrow; whereas thou rulest with exact Righteousness and Equity, whereby thy Throne is Established, Prov. 16. 12.

Marginal references: Psal. 93. 2. Heb. 1. 8.