Sons free of the tax; Hosanna to David’s son; throne with all angels

“…tolls or census? From their sons or from strangers?” He said: “From strangers.” Jesus said to him: “Then the sons are free.” How does he say he is free, outside the law, untaxed, and truly Son, unless he is God who has shared flesh and blood by hypostatic union? Yet he paid the two-drachma, as the Son above the law who has come under the law. As a mere human he would not be understood as above the law. How could he? He would not have freedom by nature unless he is understood as God in human form.

As our Savior Christ of all was going up to Jerusalem, children went before him, praising and saying: “Hosanna to the son of David.” The doxology is wholly God-befitting. The Pharisees were indignant and came saying: “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them: “Yes; have you never read: From the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise?” Here we must recall blessed David: “O Lord, our Lord, how wondrous is your name in all the earth, for your majesty is exalted above the heavens. From the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise.” The children praised, saying “Hosanna to the son of David,” and he accepts the doxology as one praised. Blessed David did not ascribe this to a common human, but rather to the Lord, whose name has become wondrous in all the earth; for the majesty too was exalted above the heavens. How, then, is the son of David according to the flesh — Christ — not God?

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.”