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LXX Psalms

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Psalm 8

1 For the end, concerning the wine-presses, a Psalm of David. 2 Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth! for your magnificence is exalted above the heavens. 3 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise, because of your enemies; that you might put down the enemy and avenger.⁠ 4 For I will regard the heavens, the work of your fingers; the moon and stars, which you have established. 5 What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him? 6 You made him a little less than angels,⁠ you have crowned him with glory and honor; 7 and you have set him over the works of your hands: you have put all things under his feet: 8 sheep and all oxen, yes and the cattle of the field; 9 the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the creatures passing through the paths of the sea. 10 Lord our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth!

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Compare LXX Psalms 8:7 and 1 Peter 3:22

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Summary

In 1 Peter, Jesus is described as exalted at God’s side with angels in submission, echoing Psalm 8 where humanity is given honor and rule over creation. Early Christian tradition combined this psalm with others to portray Jesus with universal authority.

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LXX Psalms 8:7

Septuagint
5 What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him? 6 You made him a little less than angels, you have crowned him with glory and honor; 7 and you have set him over the works of your hands: you have put all things under his feet: 8 sheep and all oxen, yes and the cattle of the field; 9 the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the creatures passing through the paths of the sea.
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Psalms

1 Peter 3:22

New Testament
20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water. 21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you—not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.
80–90 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 1 Peter

References

"... The Old Testament text most quoted or alluded to in the New Testament is Psalm 110:1. Use of this verse goes back to Jesus himself, as recorded in the gospels. It is quoted by Peter in Acts and in his epistle; it is echoed by Stephen; and it is used extensively in Hebrews. Paul makes reference to Psalm 110 four times (as discussed below). Bauckham suggests that by itself this Psalm does not necessarily mean that “my Lord” has to be seated on the divine throne. It could simply mean that the Messiah is given a position of honour beside the divine throne. However, early Christology frequently combined Psalm 110:1 with Psalm 8:6. In other words, the early Christians saw Jesus placed “on the divine throne itself, exercising God’s own rule over all things”. Bauckham points out that though Psalm 110:1 is the most quoted text in the New Testament, “in the whole of the literature of Second Temple Judaism, there is only one probable allusion to the verse … it had no importance for them”. Ciampa and Rosner also claim that “a messianic interpretation of Psalm 8 and Psalm 110 is not evident in the Jewish literature”. Seeing Jesus on the heavenly throne is a significant pointer to how the earliest Christians viewed Jesus, beginning from Peter at Pentecost ..."
Iain Gibb, “Paul and the Psalms: Paul's Hermeneutic and Worldview” (MTh(R) diss., University of Glasgow, 2017), 108–110.

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