LXX Psalms

Septuagint

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Psalm 15

1 An inscription of David. Keep me, Lord; for I have hoped in you. 2 I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; for you have no need of my goodness. 3 On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them. 4 Their weaknesses have been multiplied; afterward they hastened. I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, neither will I make mention of their names with my lips. 5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup:⁠ you are he that restores my inheritance to me. 6 The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yes, I have a most excellent heritage. 7 I will bless the Lord who has instructed me; my kidneys too have disciplined me even till night. 8 I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: 10 because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.⁠ 11 You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy with your face: at your right hand there are delights for ever.

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Compare LXX Psalms 15:10 and Acts 2:27

Septuagint · New Testament

Summary

Acts 2 echoes the Greek Septuagint translation of Psalm 15, which expresses confidence in divine protection from death. Acts changes this to describe resurrection, reading the language of rescue from death as rescue after death.

Passages

LXX Psalms 15:10

Septuagint

8 I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: 10 because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. 11 You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy with your face: at your right hand there are delights for ever.

100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Psalms

Acts 2:27

New Testament

25 For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope, 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay. 28 You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of joy with your presence.’ 29 “Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

70–90 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in Acts

References

"... How does one identify allusions, understood as deliberate prompts to readers? The question has been much discussed of late, largely in response to Richard Hays’s work on scripture in Paul. Parallels can be the upshot of unconscious borrowing or coincidence or the common use of stock phrases, and a writer can use biblical language for its own sake, without any desire to recall a particular subtext. Moreover, diligent searching can always unearth parallels between two texts. Justin Martyr discovered resemblances between the Pentateuch and Plato and took them to establish the dependence of the latter upon the former; and almost every verse in the New Testament has been thought by someone to depend upon this or that Old Testament text. Theological libraries are full of unsubstantiated intertextual theories, and proposals are often hard to evaluate ... does the affirmation that God raised Jesus on the third day ‘according to the scriptures’ (1 Corinthians 15:4) refer to Hosea 6:2 (‘on the third day he will raise us up’), to the promises to David (compare 2 Samuel 7:12 ‘I will raise up your seed after you’), to Psalm 16:10 (which is quoted in Acts 2:27 ‘You do not give me up to Sheol, or let your faithful one see the Pit’), to Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 (God will ‘raise up a prophet’ like Moses) or instead to some broader scriptural principle (such as God’s vindication of suffering saints and prophets)? ..."

Dale Allison, “The Old Testament in the New Testament,” in The New Cambridge History of the Bible: From the Beginnings to 600, ed. James Carleton Paget and Joachim Schaper (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 1:479–502.

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Compare LXX Psalms 15:10 and Acts 2:27

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LXX Psalms 15:10

Acts 2:27

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