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Acts 13:22

μεταστήσας, Luke 16:4 : refers here to Saul's deposition from the throne, 1 Samuel 15:16, cf. Daniel 2:21 1Ma 8:13, not as Bethge thinks to his removal from the presence of God, cf. 2 Kings 17:23, nor to his death, Malachi 3:1; Malachi 3:1; 3Ma 6:12. Saul therefore could not have been the bringer of the promised salvation. εὗρον κ. τ. λ.: a combination of two passages, Psalms 89:20 and 1 Samuel 13:14, and freely referred to as a saying pronounced by God Himself, but the latter part was pronounced by Samuel in God's name. τὸν τοῦ Ἰεσσαί, but in LXX τὸν δοῦλόν μου. ἄνδρα to mark the dignity (Bethge). κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν, cf. Jeremiah 3:15. ὃς ποιήσει, cf. Isaiah 44:28; Psalms 40:8. The fact that these quotations are thus left in their present shape with no attempt to correct them justifies the belief that we have here St. Paul's own words. With the first part of the quotation cf. Clem. Rom., Cor [261], xviii. 1, a striking agreement; see on the one hand as against its dependence on Acts, Wendt, p. 41 (1899), and on the other hand, Bethge, in loco, and Introd., p. 37.

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