<p>1:9 <em>You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows- </em>We should not see sin as something to be regretfully avoided and denied; the Lord's example was of hating sin. And that hatred of sin arose out of the depth of His love for righteousness. Being loved and exalted above his brethren is a Joseph allusion. The idea of &quot;your God&quot; anointing Messiah with joy above His &quot;fellows&quot; is all impossible to make sense of within the standard Trinitarian paradigm. The connection between anointing and joy is that there were traditionally expressions of joy and praise when a man was anointed or chosen for some special task such as rulership. David in writing this surely had his heart on the way that he had been anointed above his brethren. And yet &quot;fellows&quot; is being interpreted as referring to the Angels; the Lord Jesus was anointed above them. </p>