{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2588","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":33,"verse_to":33},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: Because God fulfilled this promise to your children by raising Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm: \"You are my Son, today I have begotten you.\" It should not be thought that this example from the psalm pertains to the resurrection of Christ, which he has just mentioned, but to his very incarnation, about which he spoke earlier. For the following verse clearly testifies about the resurrection. Since he was speaking earlier about his incarnation, passion, and resurrection, he wanted to confirm both with testimonies from the psalm. Therefore, he says, \"You who are eternal, Son before the ages, now appear born in time.\" Some codices have: \"As it is written in the first psalm,\" which is thus explained, the first and second psalms being considered as one work, which begins in blessedness and ends in blessedness.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: \"Raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm.\" The holy Father Hilary thus remembers this place: \"But what is now in the psalm: 'You are my Son; today I have begotten you' (Psalm II), does not pertain to the birth from the Virgin, nor to the regeneration of the bath, but to the Firstborn from the dead, according to apostolic authority. For in the book of the Acts of the Apostles it is said thus: 'We announce to you the good news of the promise made to our fathers; God has fulfilled this to our children, raising our Lord Jesus Christ, as it is written in the psalm: You are my Son; today I have begotten you, when he raised him from the dead, no longer to return to decay' (Acts XII). Therefore, this voice of God the Father according to the Apostle is heard on the day of resurrection.\" And shortly after, recalling the opinion of the Apostle, where he says about him: \"Who, being in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant\" (Philippians II), and so on: \"And in the glory of God the Father, today he is born begotten, that is, in the enduring form of God previously, the assumption of the form of a servant is honored by the reward of death, and a new but not unusual nativity happens under time, since to resume the glory of God the Father, who was found in the form of a servant from the form of God, the firstborn from the dead was born.\"<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>Cosmas Indicopleustes</b>: Paul when he was discoursing in the synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia spoke thus: And we bring you good tidings of the promise made unto the fathers, how that God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Paul here, by Christ's having been begotten, understands his resurrection, and he too has decided that the second psalm has been spoken concerning him, as all the Apostles also have affirmed.<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 5</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: The only one who knows the Father and who is only known by the Father as his Wisdom and Word and as \"the Angel of great counsel\" according to the prophet, perfectly explains to us the mystery of the incarnation. Since he was Son by nature and by truth and had shone forth from the very essence of God the Father, he was made flesh, that is, man, according to John. He desired to be called the brother of those who are in the world and to be born according to flesh like us. However, he was before time and sat with his parent even though he was made flesh. The Father knew him also as Son and said to him, \"You are my Son; today I have begotten you.\" Observe the explicit confession, nay rather, the proclamation! Indeed, he said, \"you are\" in order to point out that he existed before time. Actually, he was never in time but was always the same, to be sure, the Son. And he added, \"today I have begotten you,\" in order to indicate his final generation according to the flesh that he voluntarily underwent in the womb of the holy Virgin so that he was also called \"begotten of God.\"<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 13.33</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Since the name Jesus is applied to the man and some therefore misunderstand, he anticipated and said that the Word was placed in a tomb, so that no one might suppose the Word to have been spoken of as incorporeal; again he calls him Jesus, giving no separation anywhere to the Word who was made flesh after the union, closing the mouths of the impious everywhere. [CHRYSOSTOM]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"You are my Son.\" These words from the psalm suitably belong to the incarnation of Christ, which had a temporal arrival. For \"Today\" and \"Tomorrow\" are representative of days. But he, as the Word, is begotten of the Father timelessly. [HESYCHIUS OF JERUSALEM]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"56b1234571bac012375174f9e90ae19188ac71af2425be167c9f435701882499","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2588,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"98b29182ac81bbe6e6383598b1dd4457f56d6a70da613492ebf79f415f3d4fc0","translator":null,"work":null}