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Psalm 45:2

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Heb 1:8–9

The same psalm opens by setting the king ‘above the sons of men,’ matching ‘above your fellows’ (v. 9). A contiguous echo from the immediate context of the citation, reinforcing the Son's surpassing rank (recurrence within one source).

Medium confidence
Luke 4:22-24 ?

The crowd's wonder at the 'gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth' faintly echoes Psalm 45:2 (LXX 44:3), 'grace is poured upon your lips.' Low Volume; the verbal overlap (grace + mouth/lips) is suggestive but the connection is contested.

Low confidence