And we declare unto you glad tidings, &c.— "And we ourselves, having seen the Lord Jesus since his resurrection, readily join in their testimony; and are come hither to proclaim to you the most joyful tidings that ever reached the ears of the sinful sons of men, viz. That God having in former ages made a gracious promise of the Messiah in whom all nations should be blessed, and having often repeated it to the patriarchs our pious ancestors, has now in his faithfulness actually accomplished it to us, their descendants, and the imitators of their faith; forasmuch as he has given the highest proof and demonstration of the divine and office-character of our Jesus, in that he raised him from the dead; and so shewed that he is the very person spoken of in the second psalm, where the eternal Father is broughtin as saying to the Messiah, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee: that is, Thou art my true and proper Son; I, in the unsuccessiveday of my eternity have, in an ineffable manner, begotten thee; and in the day of thy resurrection have I eminently manifested and declared it, and have further notified thee to be Lord and Heir of all, as the first-begotten and first born from the dead, whom I have raised to all the honours of thy kingdom. See Revelation 1:5.Colossians 1:18." Bishop Pearson well observes, that it is with peculiar propriety and beauty that God is said to have begotten Christ on the day of his resurrection, as he seemed then to be born out of the earth anew. See Romans 1:4. Mr. L'Enfant says, that the anointing day of kings is sometimes called their birth-day, for which Heinsius has produced some authorities.
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Acts 13:32-33
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 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.