Bellarmine on Psalm 2 : Verse 6

 Verse 6

But I am appointed king by him over Sion his holy mountain, preaching his commandment.

Ego autem constitutus sum rex ab eo super Sion, montem sanctum ejus, praedicans praeceptum ejus.

At this point, something must be said about the words used, before we come tot the sense. In Hebrew, it has: But I ordained my King over Sion, my holy mountain. Although it matters little from the point of view of meaning, whether he says God the Father says He ordained Christ as King or Son says that He was ordained by the Father, yet it is very probable that the Septuagint translators read this slightly differently than how we now read it. [Bellarmine analyses the Hebrew vocabulary and then continues:] 

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Let us now come to the meaning. The prophet had said theat Christ’s enemies would be in an uproar, and he uttered the following words: “Let us break their bonds asunder” etc. Now he introduces Christ himself speaking and responding to them, as though to say: the nations and peoples, indeed the kings and the princes say: “Let us break their bonds asunder; truly, God shall laugh at them and Christ Himself shall respond to them : I am ordained King not by men but by God, and therefore I do not fear the threats of men; I am ordained King over Sion, His holy mountain, that is, over the Church, which is a city built on a mountain, of which Jerusalem was a type, the chief part of which, and the most beloved and sanctified of God, was Sion, as Psalm LXXXVI says: The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.