Translation
He will be powerful, and will be called the SON OF
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and the LORD GOD
will give Him
the throne of His father DAVID,
Paraphrase
He will be powerful and will be called ONE-AND-THE-SAME WITH THE MOST AWE-INSPIRING, MOST POWERFUL GOD; and THE SUPREME RULER who is THE CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THINGS will give Him the authority of His father, the one who was LOVED,
Footnotes
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In ancient times a deity figure that was called a “son of a god” was considered just as much a god as the one who was considered the “father.” For instance, Baal was considered the son of the god El, but in the minds of many people, Baal surpassed El in power and popularity. The phrase “son of god” was a way of saying that this one also was a god, equal to the other gods; there was no difference. In the modern American mind it sounds to some people like “son of God” makes Jesus less than God, or at best, the phrase is lost on us because its meaning is unclear to us; however, the people of ancient times used the phrase to indicate that this one was indeed on the same level as all the rest of the gods. To a Jew the phrase meant that this one, Jesus, was the same as God even though there is only one God. For things like this that the human mind cannot fully understand, the Jews were happy to leave that in God’s hands and just believe what He said.