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The first four verses are spoken by a prophet or an angel wondering why human rashness had risen up against the Son of God. From the fifth verse, though, the Lord himself responds, exhorting the Gentiles and all the people from the Jews who are going to believe in him, so that they may loosen the binding chains and cast off the heavy burden of the law that their own ancestors were unable to carry, so they may follow him whose yoke is easy, and burden light.

"Yet am I set by Him as King upon Sion, His holy hill, preaching His decree" [Psalm 2:6]. This is clearly spoken in the Person of the very Lord our Saviour Christ. But if Sion signify, as some interpret, beholding, we must not understand it of anything rather than of the Church, where daily is the desire raised of beholding the bright glory of God, according to that of the Apostle, "but we with open face beholding the glory of the Lord." [2 Corinthians 3:18] Therefore the meaning of this is, Yet I am set by Him as King over His holy Church; which for its eminence and stability He calls a mountain. "Yet I am set by Him as King." I, that is, whose "bands" they were meditating "to break asunder," and whose "yoke" to "cast away." "Preaching His decree." Who does not see the meaning of this, seeing it is daily practised?

[This] verse … is expressed in human fashion: as God he possesses his kingship by nature, as human he receives it by election.

Truly, God did not establish the Word as King at that time, whose power did not just begin at a point but who was and always is powerful, who as in his nature had power to create whatever he wished; so also in his nature he had power rightly so to rule over all things that were made by him.

There follows next the showing of how they are suppressed by his Christ, when he says, "But I." Now the people, the nations, and the princes rose up against the Christ of David. First, therefore, he shows how Christ relates to the people. Second, how to the nations, at "The Lord said to me." Third, how to the kings, at "And now, O kings, understand," etc. He says, therefore: "But I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain," etc. It should be known, moreover, that he was appointed king by God in Jerusalem, and by his preaching he brought the people back. As if to say: they act thus, but they cannot achieve their aim, because I have been appointed, that is, established as king over Zion, that is, over the Jewish people, who were in Jerusalem, whose citadel is Zion -- by him, namely by God: Ps. 117: "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear what man may do to me." Job 17: "Place me, O Lord, beside you, and let any man's hand fight against me." I have been appointed king, moreover, over Zion, his holy mountain, not for my own sake, but to govern the people according to the law of God; and therefore he says, "proclaiming his precept." Mystically, however, he was appointed king, according to Jer. 23: "A king shall reign and be wise," etc. Zion, that is, the Church of the Jews, which is called the holy mountain, because it first received the rays of the sun: Mt. 15: "I was not sent except to the sheep," etc. 2 Sam. 19: "Do I not know that today I am made king over Israel?" "Proclaiming the precept," that is, the Gospel. Or that special precept of which it is said in Jn. 13: "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another"; and Jn. 15: "This is my commandment," etc. This precept he personally preached to the Jews, that is, in his own person: Mt. 4: "Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom." Rom. 15: "I say that Christ Jesus was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God," etc.