Men, brethren, it behooved the scripture which the Holy Ghost predicted through the mouth of David concerning Judas, the one becoming leader to those arresting Jesus, to be fulfilled;

For David says in reference to him, I foresaw my Lord always before me, because he is on my right hand, in order that I may not be moved.

Men, brethren, it is lawful to speak to you with boldness concerning the patriarch David, because he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

For David hath not ascended into the heavens, but he says, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

the One speaking through the mouth of David, thy child, our father through the Holy Ghost, Wherefore did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

which our fathers receiving, brought in along with Joshua in the dispossession of the nations, whom God drove out, from the face of our fathers, until the days of David,

and having deposed him, he raised up to them David for a king; to whom witnessing he also said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who will do all my wishes.

And because he raised him up from the dead, no longer about to return to corruption, He has thus said, I will give unto you the faithful mercies of David.

For David, indeed having served his own generation according to the will of God, went to sleep, and did see corruption:

After these things I will return, and will build again the throne of David, which has fallen down; and will build again the ruins of the same, and will set it up again: