The Treasury of David - Psalm 2

God has laughed at the counsel and ravings of the wicked, and now Christ the Anointed himself comes forward, as the Risen Redeemer, "declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." Romans 1:4. Looking into the angry faces of the rebellious kings, the Anointed One seems to say, "If this suffices not to make you silent, 'I will declare the decree'." Now this decree is directly in conflict with the device of man, for its tenor is the establishment of the very dominion against which the nations are raving.