The central part of the verse, quoted in Heb. 1:5 as well
as alluded to in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ baptism, is thus construed as a
record of the Father’s speech at an earlier theodramatic time. And given that
early Christian interpreters were clear that the Father spoke these words to Jesus,
the logical consequence is that the Son must have had the actual conversation with
the Father being recounted in Ps. 2:7 at some point prior to the time when the
Son was recounting it. While the author of Hebrews does not comment on this broader
context, the following verse, with its reference to “when [God] brings the
firstborn into the world,” makes clear his understanding of when this divine
dialogue took place (Heb 1:6; cf. Deut 32:43). The implication is that the
Father originally spoke the words of Ps 2:7 to the pre-existent Son at the time
of the Son’s incarnation. (Kyle R. Hughes, Scriptural Exegesis and the
Making of Early Christology [Eugene, Oreg. Cascade Books, 2024], 30-31)
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