2:29 “Brothers, 1 I can speak confidently 2 to you about our forefather 3 David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
1 tn Since this represents a continuation of the address beginning in v.14 and continued in v. 22, “brothers” has been used here rather than a generic expression like “brothers and sisters.”
2 sn Peter’s certainty is based on well-known facts.
3 tn Or “about our noted ancestor,” “about the patriarch.”
4 tn The participle ὑπηρετήσας (Juphrethsa") is taken temporally.
5 tn The verb κοιμάω (koimaw) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for the death of a believer.
6 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “was gathered to his fathers” (a Semitic idiom).
7 tn Grk “saw,” but the literal translation of the phrase “saw decay” could be misunderstood to mean simply “looked at decay,” while here “saw decay” is really figurative for “experienced decay.” This remark explains why David cannot fulfill the promise.