George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 13:36
After he had served in his generation. That is, in his life-time, saw corruption, or was corrupted in the grave. (Witham)
After he had served in his generation. That is, in his life-time, saw corruption, or was corrupted in the grave. (Witham)
Verse 36. _DAVID - FELL ON SLEEP - AND SAW CORRUPTION_] David died, was buried, and never rose again; therefore, David cannot be the person spoken of here: the words are true of some other person; and...
FOR DAVID ... - This verse is designed to show that the passage in Psalms 16:1; could not refer to David, and must therefore relate to some other person. In Acts 13:37 it is affirmed that this could r...
PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...
THE SERMON AT PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. This is a specimen of Paul's missionary practice. In external matters it is true to the facts, yet the sermon is on the one hand so like the sermon of Peter (ch. 2) and...
Then Paul stood up and made a gesture with his hand and said, "You Israelites, and you who are God-fearers, listen to this. The God of this people Israel chose out our fathers and he exalted the peopl...
THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...
DAVID. David indeed. AFTER HE HAD. having. SERVED. Greek. _hupereteo._ App-190. WILL. Greek. _boule._ App-102. Compare Acts 13:22. Only place where _boule_ is translated "will". FELL ON SLEEP. Gre...
_For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep_ It is possible to render the Greek, "For David, after that in his own generation he had served the will of God, fe...
ΔΑΥΕῚΔ ΜῈΝ ΓᾺΡ … ἘΚΟΙΜΉΘΗ, _for David, after he had served his own generation by the counsel of God, fell on sleep_. There are several other constructions possible in this verse. Thus βουλῇ might be t...
PAUL’S SPEECH AT ANTIOCH...
_PAUL'S POWERFUL SERMON AT ANTIOCH ACTS 13:14-41:_ At Perga in Pamphylia John Mark left Paul and Barnabas and went back to Jerusalem. Later, this would cause no small trouble between these brethren. W...
ΎΠΗΡΕΤΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΎΠΗΡΕΤΈΩ (G5256) служить (TDNT). ΒΟΥΛΉ _dat. sing. Instr. dat._ Вероятно, оба дательных относятся к _part._, "после того, как Давид послужил в своих потомках п...
DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED, &C.— _After that in his generation he had served the will of God._ Blackwall, p. 184....
AT ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. Acts 13:14-52. a. In the synagogue, the first sermon of Paul. Acts 13:1. Acts 13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the s...
See notes one verse 34...
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: FOR DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS OWN GENERATION BY THE WILL...
33 The rendering first psalm in place of second psalm demands some explanation. Our three great witnesses all read second, and we would have so rendered it, but for the confusion which would result wh...
13:36 God, (h-14) Or 'having served his own generation by the will of God.'...
ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...
ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. ST. PAUL'S SERMON IN THE SYNAGOGUE. The cities which the apostles now proceeded to evangelise (Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe) were situated in the southern part of t...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...
AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS OWN GENERATION. — Literally, _ministered to his own generation._ There is, perhaps, a suggested contrast between the limits within which the work of service to mankind done by...
γὰρ : David is contrasted with Christ by St. Paul as by St. Peter, Acts 2:29. ἰδίᾳ γενεᾷ ὑπηρ.: “after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell on sleep,” R.V., but in margin the r...
CONDEMNED BY MEN BUT RAISED BY GOD Acts 13:25-37 For Paul the Resurrection was always the keystone of faith. He had taken particular care to assure himself of the reality of that foundation fact. In...
The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...
Proclaiming the Gospel in Antioch of Pisidia Ash says they would have landed at the port of Attalia and then gone on the short distance to Perga. For some reason, John Mark decided to leave "Paul and...
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. (27) For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because the...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
_DAVID’S SERVICE AND OURS_ ‘David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.’ Acts 13:36 The Apostle is showing that certain declarations of Scripture could not refe...
36._When David had served his time. _Lest any man should think that that place intreateth of David, Paul showeth briefly that this agreeth not to David in all points, whose corpse was rotten in the gr...
We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...
Ver. 36 FOR DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS OWN GENERATION,.... Or the men of that age and generation in which he lived, the subjects of his kingdom; by governing them with wholesome laws, protecting t...
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: Ver. 36. _After he had served_] _Martinus decumbens, Domino, di...
_And we declare unto you glad tidings_ Tidings which should be in a particular manner acceptable to the Jews; _that the promise which was made unto the fathers_ And was the hope and joy of their poste...
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....
The argument from the resurrection of Christ:...
From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...
" FOR DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS OWN GENERATION BY THE WILL OF GOD, FELL ASLEEP, WAS BURIED WITH HIS FATHERS, AND SAW CORRUPTION; 1. Paul makes a similar argument as Peter made on Pentecost. 1....
OWN GENERATION BY THE WILL OF GOD: Or, after he had in his own age served the will of God...
32-37 The resurrection of Christ was the great proof of his being the Son of God. It was not possible he should be held by death, because he was the Son of God, and therefore had life in himself, whi...
Some point these words otherwise, reading them thus; DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS GENERATION, BY THE WILL OF GOD FELL ASLEEP: which contains indeed a truth, viz. that God hath appointed every one's...
Acts 13:36 For G1063 G3303 David G1138 served G5256 (G5660) own G2398 generation G1074 will G1012 God...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY PREACH IN PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. (13:13-52). Paul ‘and his company' (thus there were at least one or two others besides Mark) left Paphos and sailed across to Perga in Pamphylia. It wi...
PAUL'S MESSAGE (13:17-41). Paul's message divides into three parts. · In the first he declares the goodness and faithfulness of the One God, Who over long centuries, commencing with Abraham (‘chose o...
PAUL'S MESSAGE - PART 2. THROUGH A SERIES OF RULERS GOD HAS RAISED UP GREAT DAVID'S GREATER SON WHO DIED AND WAS RAISED AGAIN (13:20-37). In this section of his speech the emphasis is on God' provisio...
“Because he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not give Your Holy One (ton hosion) to see corruption.' For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was...
_Paul's Sermon in the Synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia_, _17-41._ This discourse falls naturally into three divisions: _(a)_ Acts 13:17-22. A sketch of the grand old story of the chosen people till t...
Acts 13:36. FOR DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS OWN GENERATION BY THE WILL OF GOD, FELL ON SLEEP. The words of the psalm just quoted were spoken certainly by King David, but they cannot possibly find t...
_The Argument of the following ten verses_, 28 - 37, _is as follows_ : I. Acts 13:28-29. The Jews put the innocent Jesus to death, and then laid Him in the grave. II. Acts 13:30-31. But God raised...
HIS OWN GENERATION (ιδια γενεα). Either locative case, "in his own generation" or dative object of υπηρετησας (served).THE COUNSEL OF GOD (τη του θεου βουλη). So here, either the dative, the objec...
Acts 13:36 Life the Service of a Generation. I. "He served his generation." The expression is vague till we interpret it. To one of us it may seem a small thing to have the possibilities of life conf...
Acts 13:14. _But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. And after reading of the law and the prophets,_ From whi...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem._ «John» that is, John Mark, as we see by chapter 15...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Anti...
CONTENTS: Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Ho...
Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...
FOR THE PEOPLE. Paul now explains the facts of the gospel. (1) Christ was rejected by the Jewish leaders; (2) the prophecies made to come true; (3) they force Pilate to kill him, even though they coul...
_The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers._ THE HOURS ON THE WORLD’S CLOCK 1. Moving slowly forward as the hours of the Eternal God, with whom a thousand years are as one day, and of the l...
_For David, after he had served his own generation._ THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND DEATH OF DAVID I. The general character of the man. We shall not attempt to extenuate his sins. But let his penitential P...
_Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia._ PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA Because Perga was little known Pamphylia is subjoined. It was an ancient city on the river Cest...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:16 Paul’s sermon consisted of three parts: a sketch of OT history (vv. Acts 13:16), God’s ultimate provision in Jesus Christ (vv....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:13. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY.—Note the two changes—first of Saul’s name, which is henceforth Paul, and next of Paul’s position in the mission as leader rather than as follower,...
EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...
1 Chronicles 11:2; 1 Chronicles 13:2; 1 Chronicles 15:12; 1 Chronicles 15:25;...
Was laid unto [π ρ ο σ ε τ ε θ η]. Lit., was added unto. Compare ch. Acts 2:47; Acts 5:14....
David, having served the will of God in his generation, fell asleep — So his service extended not itself beyond the bounds of the common age of man: but the service of the Messiah to all generations,...
The Holy Ghost here gives. compendious account of David's life and death. Of his life, HE SERVED HIS GENERATION ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD; Of his death, HE FELL ASLEEP, AND WAS GATHERED TO HIS FATH...