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Acts 2:23-25
1599 Geneva Bible
Acts 2:23-25
1599 Geneva Bible
23 Him, I say, being delivered by the determinate counsel, and [a]foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked [b]hands you have crucified and [c]slain.
24 [d]Whom God hath raised up, and loosed the [e]sorrows of death, because it was impossible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David saith concerning him, (A)I beheld the Lord always before me: for he is at my right hand, that I should not be shaken.
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- Acts 2:23 God’s everlasting knowledge going before, which can neither be separated from his determinate counsel, as the Epicureans say, neither yet be the cause of evil: for God in his everlasting and unchangeable counsel, appointed the wicked act of Judas to an excellent end: and God doeth that well which the instruments do ill.
- Acts 2:23 God’s counsel doth not excuse the Jews, whose hands were wicked.
- Acts 2:23 The fault is said to be theirs, by whose counsel and egging forward it is done.
- Acts 2:24 Christ (as David foretold) did not only rise again, but also was in the grave void of all corruption.
- Acts 2:24 The dead that was full of sorrow both of body and mind: therefore when death appeared conqueror and victor over those sorrows, Christ is rightly said to have overcome those sorrows of death, when as being dead, he overcame death, to live forever with his Father.
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