For your teachers have dared to interpret the saying, "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet," as spoken of Hezekiah, as though he had been commanded to sit on the right side of the temple, when the king of the Assyrians sent threats against him, and it was signified to him through Isaiah not to fear him. And that what was spoken by Isaiah did indeed come to pass thus—that the king of the Assyrians turned back from making war on Jerusalem in the days of Hezekiah, and an angel of the Lord destroyed from the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand—this we both know and confess.
But that the psalm was not spoken of him is plain. For it runs thus: "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. He shall send forth a rod of power upon Jerusalem, and you shall rule in the midst of your enemies. In the splendor of the saints, from the womb before the morning star I have begotten you. The Lord has sworn, and will not change His mind: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
That Hezekiah, then, is not a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek—who does not confess it? And that he is not the one who redeems Jerusalem—who does not know it? And that he did not send forth a rod of power upon Jerusalem and rule in the midst of his enemies, but it was God who turned back his foes while he wept and lamented—who does not recognize it?
But our Jesus, though He has not yet come in glory, sent forth a rod of power into Jerusalem—the word of calling and of repentance to all the nations, where the demons held dominion over them, as David says: "The gods of the nations are demons." And His mighty word has persuaded many to abandon the demons whom they served, and to believe through Him in the Almighty God, that the gods of the nations are demons. And the saying, "In the splendor of the saints, from the womb before the morning star I have begotten you," is spoken of Christ, as we said before.