King James Version
Acts 13:35 in the King James Version says “Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” — study this verse from Acts chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”
Acts 13:35 · KJV
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. mercies: Gr. holy, or just things: which word the Septuagint in many places, uses for that which is in the Hebrew, mercies
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: after: or, after he had in his own age served the will of God
But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
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“also”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“he saith”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
“psalm Thou shalt”
G1325to give (used in a very wide application, properly, or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection)
“Holy One”
G3741properly, right (by intrinsic or divine character; thus distinguished from 1342, which refers rather to human statutes and relations; from g2413, whic
“to see”
G1492used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent g3700 and g3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by impl
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