moving: but figuratively it signifieth to rest, stay, dwell, inhabite, rule or governe,See
Luke 24.49.
Ruth 1.4.
Matt. 23.2. as Psal. 27. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that I will seeke after, that I may sit, or dwell, in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life. 1 King. 1. 30. He shall sit upon my throne in my stead. Prov. 20. 8. A King that sitteth in the throne of judgement, scattereth away all evill with his eyes. Isai. 16. 5. And in mercy shall the throne be established, and he shall sit upon it in truth. To stand or sit at the right hand is an usuall phrase in Scripture. By the former divers things are noted; First, to resist, oppose, or hinder the endeavours of any one; Psal. 109. 6. Let Satan stand atעמד על his right hand, scil. to stay or hinder that it might not move, to infringe, or weaken his endeavours. Zech. 3. 1. And he shewed me Ioshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
Secondly, to assist, defend, protect against enemies and manifold dangers, whereunto men are subject.Vid. 1 Chron. 6.30.
עמד על He shall stand at the right hand of the poore, to save him from those that condemne his soule. Psal. 109. 31. Iכק Psal. 16.10. have set the Lord alwayes before me, because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Thirdly, they are said to stand at the right hand, that obtaine the next degree of honour with him at whose hand they are said to stand. Psal. 45. 9. Upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in gold of Ophyr.נִצְּבָה·ל
For the second, Great Kings and Princes doe set them at their right hands, whom they specially love, favour, or honour; and whom they mind to advance to the chiefe degrees of power and authority under them, or to be as it were in their stead, and in office to represent their person; The King rose up to meet Bathsheba, and bowed himselfe unto her, and sate down on his Throne, and caused a seat to be set for the Kings mother, and she sate on his right hand. 1 King. 2. 19. To sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. Matth. 20. 21, 23. By Christs sittingAd dextram Dei sedere, est proximam post Deum potestatem habere.
Verbum sedere Regni significat potestatem.
Hieron. in Eph. cap. 1. at the right hand of his Father, is noted that great honour and glory, plenitude of power, and judiciarie office or dominion, which God the Father hath given unto his Sonne, after his manifestation in the flesh, in his Nativity; and justification by the Spirit, in his Resurrection: for then amongst other dignities, he was received up into glory. 1 Tim. 3. 10. It may be described, the highest and supreme de-gree
