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In 1 Clement, the author quotes God praising David in a form that joins a psalm with 1 Samuel and adds the name of Jesse, the same combination Paul uses in Acts 13, likely because Clement and Acts each knew an older collection of passages about David.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Acts 13:22
New Testament
20 All this took about 450 years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years. 22 After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’ 23 From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised. 24 Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.
Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 18:1
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Early Christian
1 But what must we say of David that obtained a good report? of whom God said, “I have found a man after My heart, David the son of Jesse: with eternal mercy have I anointed him.” 2 Yet he too says to God “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your great mercy; and according to the multitude of Your compassions blot out my iniquity.” 3 “Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me. Against You only did I sin, and I did evil in Your sight; that You may be justified in Your words, and may conquer in Your pleading.”
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Notes and References
“... Hagner finds the agreement between 1 Clem. 18. 1 and Acts 13. 22 to be sufficiently conspicuous to assert the probability of Clement’s knowledge of Acts, but C. K. Barrett observes that the differences between the parallels suggest that they are independent. Martin Albl, who argues that Luke is unlikely to have created so complex a conflated quotation as is found in Acts 13. 22, points to the differences between the endings of the two quotations. He argues that both the absence in 1 Clement of the final phrase of Acts 13. 22 and the continuing use of Ps. 88(89) past what appears in Acts suggest that both texts are independent witnesses to an earlier tradition which had already combined 1 Sam. 13. 14 and Ps. 88(89). 21, perhaps as part of a scriptural historical review that culminated in the selection of David, the ideal ‘messianic’ king. ...”
Gregory, Andrew F.
The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers
(p. 141) Oxford University Press, 2005
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