Teks -- Psalms 82:6 (NET)

82:6 I thought, ‘You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.’

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Wesley: Psa 82:6 - Have said

I have given you my name and power to rule your people in my stead.

Wesley: Psa 82:6 - All

Not only the rulers of Israel, but of all other nations.

Wesley: Psa 82:6 - Children

Representing my person, and bearing both my name and authority.

JFB: Psa 82:6-7

Though God admitted their official dignity (Joh 10:34), He reminds them of their mortality.

Clarke: Psa 82:6 - Ye are gods

Ye are gods - Or, with the prefix of כ ke , the particle of similitude, כאלהים keelohim , "like God."Ye are my representatives, and are clothed with my power and authority to dispense judgment and justice, therefore all of them are said to be children of the Most High.

Calvin: Psa 82:6 - I have said, ye are gods

6.I have said, ye are gods God has invested judges with a sacred character and title. This the prophet concedes; but he, at the same time, shows that this will afford no support and protection to wicked judges. He does not introduce them as speaking of the dignity of their office; but anticipating the style of reasoning which they would be disposed to adopt, he replies, “If you appeal to your dignity as an argument to shield you, this boasting will avail you nothing; yea, rather you are deceiving yourselves by your foolish confidence; for God, in appointing you his substitutes, has not divested himself of his own sovereignty as supreme ruler. Again, he would have you to remember your own frailty as a means of stirring you up to execute with fear and trembling the office intrusted to you.” This verse may also be viewed as addressed by God himself to rulers, and as intimating, that, in addition to his clothing them with authority, he has bestowed upon them his name. This interpretation seems to agree with the language of Christ in Joh 10:34, where he speaks of those as called gods to whom the word of God came. The passage, however, may be appropriately resolved thus: I grant that ye are gods, and the sons of the Most High ⁴²⁷ But this does not materially alter the meaning. The object is simply to teach that the dignity with which judges are invested can form no excuse or plea why they should escape the punishment which their wickedness deserves. The government of the world has been committed to them upon the distinct understanding that they themselves also must one day appear at the judgment-seat of heaven to render up an account. The dignity, therefore, with which they are clothed is only temporary, and will pass away with the fashion of the world. Accordingly, it is added in the 7^th verse, But ye shall die as men. You are armed with power, as if he had said, to govern the world; but you have not on that account ceased to be men, so as to be no longer subject to mortality. The last clause of the verse is translated by some expositors, Ye shall fall like one of the princes; ⁴²⁸ but in my opinion improperly. They think that it contains a threatening of the violent death which would befall these unrighteous judges, corresponding to the sentiment of these lines of a heathen poet: —

“ Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci,
Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni.”

“Few kings and tyrants go down to Pluto, the son-in-law of Ceres, without being put to a violent death, before they have completed the ordinary term allotted to the life of mortal man.” ⁴²⁹ That translation being forced, and not such as the words naturally suggest, I have no doubt that princes are here compared to the obscure and common class of mankind. The word one signifies any of the common people. Forgetting themselves to be men, the great ones of the earth may flatter themselves with visionary hopes of immortality; but they are here taught that they will be compelled to encounter death as well as other men. Christ, with the view of rebutting the calumny with which the Pharisees loaded him, quoted this text, Joh 10:34, “Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?” By these words Christ did not mean to place himself among the order of judges; but he argues from the less to the greater, that if the name of God is applied to God’s officers, it with much more propriety belongs to his only begotten Son, who is the express image of the Father, in whom the Father’s majesty shines forth, and in whom the whole fullness of the Godhead dwells.

Defender: Psa 82:6 - Ye are gods

This verse was quoted by the Lord Jesus Christ (Joh 10:34) in response to the charge by the Jewish leaders that He was guilty of blasphemy when He claimed to be the Son of God. Their own forebears had been called "children of the most High ('Elyon')," as God's representatives in judging the people. Surely it was in order for the One whom the Father had specifically "sent into the world" to identify Himself that way."

TSK: Psa 82:6

Psa 82:1; Exo 22:9, Exo 22:28; Joh 10:34-36

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Poole: Psa 82:6 - I have said, Ye are gods // All of you // Children of the Most High

I have said, Ye are gods I have given you my name and power to rule your people in my stead.

All of you not only the rulers of Israel, but of all other nations; for all powers are ordained by God , Rom 13:1 .

Children of the Most High representing my person, and bearing both my name and lively characters of my majesty and authority, as children bear the name and image of their parents.

Gill: Psa 82:6 - I have said, ye are gods // and all of you are children of the most High

I have said, ye are gods,.... In the law, Exo 21:6 or they were so by his appointment and commission; he constituted them judges and magistrates, invested them with such an office, by which they came to have this title; see Rom 13:1, and so our Lord interprets these words, that they were gods "to whom" the word of God came, which gave them a commission and authority to exercise their office, Joh 10:35, or rather "against whom" it came, pronouncing the sentence of death on them, as in Psa 82:7, to which the reference is; declaring, that though they were gods by office, yet were mortal men, and should die. The Targum is, "I said, as angels are ye accounted"; and so judges and civil magistrates had need to be as angels, and to have the wisdom of them; see 2Sa 14:20. Jarchi interprets it of angels, but magistrates are undoubtedly meant:

and all of you are children of the most High; the Targum here again renders it,

"the angels of the most High:''

and so Aben Ezra explains it of them who are called the sons of God, Job 38:7 but men in power are meant, who, because of their eminency and dignity, their high office, post, and place, are so called; see Gen 6:2.