The talk contemplates the Psalm (Your throne, O God) and the words of the New Testament (Hebrews and John and Acts) to clarify the mystery of Christ’s anointing and its relation to His divinity and humanity.

About the title and the verses:
The phrase “Your throne, O God to the ages of the ages” points to Christ’s divinity and eternal authority, while phrases like “God has anointed you with the oil of gladness” appear in the context of his humanity and show how his human nature received the anointing.

Meaning of the anointing and the historical timing:
The anointing is the work of the Holy Spirit which came upon Christ at the baptism and was not an ontological addition to the divine essence, rather it was an expression of the union of divinity with humanity and the saving mission which Christ accomplished since his incarnation.

Sanctification of the human nature:
Christ “sanctified himself” by his self-anointing with the Holy Spirit not because he lacked anything of perfection, but in order to sanctify the whole human nature: he took our nature and blessed it and restored its divine image so that we also may be anointed with the Spirit.

Relation of the person and the divine attributes:
The talk affirms that the general divine attributes are shared by the three persons, and that the word “God” sometimes indicates the whole divinity or sometimes the person of the Father according to context, and one must not understand the exception literally so as to exclude one of the persons.

Practical result for the salvation of humans:
By anointing the humanity, Christ granted to humanity the ability to be anointed by the Holy Spirit and become a temple of God, and to recover the human nature its image and thus be fit to enter the eternal kingdom.

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