Also I will make him my firstborn
Or, "make him the firstborn"; make him great, as Jarchi
interprets it; give him the blessing, the double portion of
inheritance: so Christ is made most blessed for ever, and has all
spiritual blessings in his hands; and is heir of all things, and
his people joint-heirs with him. Christ is God's "firstborn", or
"first begotten", ( Hebrews 1:6 ) , being
begotten by him, and of him; and his firstbegotten, though none
begotten after him; as the first that opened the womb, under the
law, was called the firstborn, though none were ever born after;
and in such sense his first begotten, as that he is his only
begotten: and he is the firstborn, with respect to creatures; "he
is the firstborn of every creature"; ( Colossians
1:15 ) , being begotten and brought forth before any creature
was in being, ( Proverbs
8:22-25 ) , and, with respect to the saints, "he is the
firstborn among many brethren", ( Romans 8:29 ) , they
are of the same nature, and in the same family, and in which
Christ is a son, and the firstborn; and in all things he has the
preeminence; and he is also "the firstborn from the dead", or
"the first begotten of the dead", ( Colossians
1:18 ) ( Revelation
1:5 ) being raised first from thence by his own power, and to
an immortal life; and is the first fruits of them that sleep, and
the efficient and meritorious cause of the resurrection of life,
and the pattern and exemplar of it: even him the Father promises
to make "higher than the kings of the earth"; having a kingdom of
a superior nature to theirs, and a more extensive and durable
one; and even they themselves shall be subject to him; hence he
is called "King of kings", ( Revelation
19:16 ) . This will be when their kingdoms become his; when
they shall fall down before him, and worship him, and bring their
riches and glory into his kingdom, or the New Jerusalem church
state, ( Psalms 72:10
Psalms
72:11 ) ( Revelation
11:15 ) ( 21:24 ) .
This passage is interpreted of the Messiah by the Jews
F6.