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The claim in Psalm 102 that God's years never end is applied to the wounded savior in the Ladder of Jacob, as Hebrews also uses it for Jesus.
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Psalm 102:27
Hebrew Bible
23 He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days. 24 I say, “O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life. You endure through all generations. 25 In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork. 26 They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear. 27 But you remain; your years do not come to an end. 28 The children of your servants will settle down here, and their descendants will live securely in your presence.”
Ladder of Jacob 8:11
Pseudepigrapha, Hebrew Bible Expansions
8 And he will be wounded in the midst of the house of the beloved; but when he is wounded, then also the saving and the end of all corruption draws near. 9 For those who have wounded him shall themselves receive a wound which shall not be healed for them for ever. 10 But all creatures shall worship the wounded one, and many shall hope in him, and everywhere, and among all the Gentiles, shall he be known. 11 But those who have known his name shall not be put to shame, and his own might and his years shall not fail for ever.
Notes and References
“... Our passage is alluded to in Lad. Jac. 7:35, but there are several problems in regard to this allusion. First, the work has survived in highly unsatisfactory form, known only from the Slavonic Explanatory Palaia, the editors of which took great liberty with the texts that they utilized, removing text, rearranging texts, melding disparate works, and changing the wording to make their products anti-Jewish. Chapter 7, in which our allusion occurs, probably should be seen as a separate work, juxtaposed to the end of the book. This chapter contains various oracular prophecies on the birth and crucifixion of Christ (OTP 2:401–2). Alluding to 102:27 in Lad. Jac. 7:35, and speaking of Christ, it reads, “His own dominion and years will be unending forever.” Thus, as in Heb. 1:10–12, the allusion to Ps. 102 is used in support of an aspect of Christology. ...”
Guthrie, George H.
"Hebrews" in Beale, G. K., and D. A. Carson, editors. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
(pp. Heb 1:10-12) Baker Academic, 2007
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