“For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:”
David said about him: 'I see the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. — Peter cites Psalm 16:8-11, attributed to David and read typologically as a prophecy of Christ's resurrection. The psalmist's confidence in God's presence (prophetic of Christ's victorious trust) becomes proof of the resurrection's necessity and reality. The at-right-hand imagery anticipates Psalm 110, establishing Christ's exaltation.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:25
For David says (with reference) to Him. Acts 2:25 And observe how, once more, the testimony is lowly. For therefore he begins the citation further up, with the matters of lowlier import: therefore was death not in the number of grievous things [because], says he, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, that He is on my right hand that I should not be moved: Acts 2:25-27 and, that You will not leave my soul in hell. Then, having finished the citation from the Prophet, he…
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