Later text
And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 13:32-33 → Deuteronomy 4:37-38
Quotation
Earlier text
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power, to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
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Earlier text
Psalms 2:7BSB
I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: "You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
Significance
"What God promised our fathers He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: 'You are My Son; today I have become Your Father'" (Acts 13:32-33). Paul roots the gospel in the covenant promise made to the fathers — the God who loved the fathers and chose their descendants (Deuteronomy 4:37-38) keeps His word by raising up Jesus. He reads Psalm 2:7, the royal decree enthroning the Davidic king as God's Son, as fulfilled supremely in the resurrection, God's public declaration and installation of Jesus as the messianic Son (cf. Romans 1:4). The connection is promise-fulfillment reaching its goal: what was pledged to the fathers and enacted in the enthronement psalms is accomplished in the risen Christ. "Today" is resurrection day, the Son declared with power, the ancient promise no longer awaited but given — "to us, their children." Here the whole trajectory of divine sonship, from Israel God's son to David's son to the Son, terminates in the One before whom every knee will bow.
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- Promise-Fulfillment