V. 13.— But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? The Apostle here returns to his argument to prove the superiority of the Lord Jesus to angels, of which, indeed, he had never lost sight; but had soared so high in describing the Divinity of the Son of God, as to leave every created being far beneath Him. The honor of sitting at the right hand of God is such, that it never was given to any of the angels. They are described as round about the throne; but Christ, in the character of mediator, sits upon the throne at the Father’ s right hand. Thus Christ is distinguished from all angels of every order, from the highest to the lowest. Sit on my right hand, is a quotation from Psalms 110:1; Psalms 110:5; it was quoted by our Lord in the days of His flesh, as having been written by David under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in reference to Christ. The great mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh, was hid from the scribes and pharisees, although plainly declared in the Scriptures; but, like many other predictions, was not understood till its fulfilment. The reference to Psalms 110 : was exactly to the Apostle’ s purpose in proof of Messiah’ s superiority to angels. It also contained a powerful argument to induce the believing Hebrews to hold fast their allegiance to Christ, because all His enemies must be made His footstool. Isaiah 60:12. Psalms 72:9. Enemies.— The devil and his angels are in a state of rebellion against God; and it would appear that their rebellion arose from the intimation of the exaltation of Christ, and that our Lord refers to this when He said, “ He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth" John 8:44. It was God’ s eternal purpose to make known by the Church to the principalities and powers in heavenly places His manifold wisdom. Ephesians 3:10. In furtherance of this design He seems to have revealed to the heavenly hosts His determination to put all things under the Son of man, Satan, then an angel of light, and, it may be, superior to all other angels, scorned the thought of being subject to a creature formed of the dust. He therefore set himself to defeat bis Maker’ s purpose. He knew His justice and His truth; he heard the intimation, “ in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” If, then, he could lead man to transgress, the exaltation of Adam, or any of bis posterity, appeared absolutely impossible. He succeeded, he brought mankind under the curse; but there is no counsel or divination against the Lord. His purpose was accomplished by the very means employed to defeat it; for, in the fulness of time, the Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, and now in human nature is seated at God’ s right hand to gather in his redeemed, and to take vengeance on all his enemies. Satan bas thus become the dupe of his own subtlety, and has been made the unwilling instrument of accomplishing the Divine purpose. Not only are the devil and his angels the enemies of Christ, but all the children of men who have not been chosen in Him— called by His grace, are among the number of His enemies. But all His enemies shall be made His footstool. They shall not only fail in their attempts to injure those who are called into the fellowship of God’ s dear Son, but their enmity shall be overruled to promote the benefit of Christ’ s people. As a footstool is a convenience to one seated on a chair of state, so all the machinations of Satan and his adherents shall advance the glory of the Son of God.