Psalm 2:12 "Son" not actually in the text?

That is untrue. Ignorance from a Rabbi. The KJV Translators respected and consulted Syriac language and scripture, which is a semitic language. They also read, studied, spoke Hebrew, which of course a Semitic language. The Rabbi is a liar who is anti saviour.

 

Undoubtedly the Rabbi is aware of the connection KJV (and others) make between the seed of the serpent of Gen 3:15 and 'that generation' of Jews that murdered Christ.

 

• Dr. Laurence Chadderton was for thirty-eight years Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and well versed in Rabbinical learning. He was one of the few Puritan divines among the translators. Born 1537; died 1640, at the advanced age of one hundred and three.

• Dr. Miles Smith was a student of classic authors from his youth, was well acquainted with the Rabbinical learning, and well versed in Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac and Arabic. He was often called a "walking library." Born about 1568, died 1624.

John Boyse, or Bois, at six years of age could write Hebrew elegantly. He was for twelve years chief lecturer in Greek at St. John's College, Cambridge. Bishop Andrewes, of Ely, made him a prebend in his church in 1615. He was one of the most laborious of all the revisers. Born 1560, died 1643


I could go on and on with different KING JAMES TRANSLATORS. They studied, spoke, translated and loved Semitic languages.

History of the King James Version

 

Titus 1:12-13

.... can't identify the Cretans, not allowed!

 

I doubt it. Truth is not racist.

 

There's no doubt it's a Messianic Psalm.

 

Psalm 2:12
נַשְּׁקוּ־בַ֡ר

The word “Son” (br) is Aramaic, not Hebrew (bn).
Translating it as "son" presents a dating problem for the psalm's composition.

Confirmation with the Dead Sea Scrolls is not possible since they are missing the end of Ps. 2

Robert Alter in his translation of Psalm 2 writes:

12 With purity be armed,

lest He rage and you be lost on the way.​

For His wrath in a moment flares up.

Happy, all who shelter in Him.​

"The two words nashqu bar are the first of a long series of textual cruces in Psalms. As they stand, they make little sense, and the most elaborate efforts have been undertaken--none very convincing--to make the text mean something by extensive reconstructive surgery. The present translation hews to the Masoretic Text, merely revocalizing bar (son? wheat?) as bor, "purity." The usual sense of the verb nashqu is "to kiss," but it also means "to bear [or wield] arms" (compare its use in Psalm 78:9, 1 Chronicles 12:2 and 2 Chronicles 17:17). As an idiom, to arm oneself with purity is not otherwise attested to in the Bible, but it might make sense here as a counterpoint to the implied raising of arms against Zion at the beginning of the psalm."​

The Septuagint has “Seize upon instruction” (NETS), "Take hold of instruction" (Lexham English Septuagint).
These readings may better reflect the original.

Psalm 2:12a

Douay Rheims
Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way.

Wycliffe
Take ye lore; lest the Lord be wrooth sumtyme, and lest ye perischen fro iust waie.

Sharpe Bible (1865)
Embrace purity, lest he be angry, And ye perish from the way,

JPS 1917
Do homage in purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way,

Rob

 

YLT:
12 Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

 

Well, he's a long way to go, I count no less than five NT references to this Psalm.

 

3Q2 Psalms

Language: Hebrew

Date: 30 B.C. - 68 A.D.

Location: Qumran Cave 3

Contents: Psalms 2:6-7



Psalms 2

6 “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

7 I will tell of the decree.

Yahweh said to me, “You are my son.

Today I have become your father.

Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls - 3Q2 Psalms

 

Ps 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

This verse is quoted by Paul in Acts 13 in a sermon to Jews and sets the context of being the spiritual birth of Jesus at his resurrection and not his physical birth at Bethlehem.

Ac 13:33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

This is not about a birth of an only begotten son from the womb but about a birth of the first begotten son from the dead.

Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Ro 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

"Son" is the most important word in the whole of Psa 2.

 

Proverbs 31:2, ". . . What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows? . . ." Tanakh 1917
Psalms 2:12, ". . . Do homage in purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, When suddenly His wrath is kindled. Happy are all they that take refuge in Him. . . ."