The Acts of the Apostles (1911) — PDF Scan 178

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172 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES down from the tree, and laid Him in a sepulcher. But God raised Him from the dead : and He was seen many days of them which came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses unto the people.'' *^We declare unto you glad tidings," the apostle continued, '4iow that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 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. Wherefore He saitli 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: but He, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.'' And now, having spoken plainly of the fulfilment of familiar prophecies concerning the Messiah, Paul preached unto them repentance and the remission of sin through the merits of Jesus their Saviour. ^'Be it known unto you," he said, "that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins : and by Him all, that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." The Spirit of God accompanied the words that were spoken, and hearts were touched. The apostle's appeal to Old Testament prophecies, and his declaration that these had been fulfilled in the ministry of