Acts 3:25 - Exposition

Sons for children, A.V.; your for our, A.V. and T.R.; families for kindreds, A.V. Ye are the sons of the prophets, meaning that they inherited all the promises made by the prophets to their fathers. Just as in Acts 2:39 he said, "The promise is unto you and to your children" (comp. Romans 9:4 ; Romans 15:8 ). He thus enforces the solemn obligation of giving heed to what the prophets had said concerning Christ and his kingdom. In thy seed (see Galatians 3:16 ). This covenant, into which God entered with Abraham, with an oath ( Genesis 22:16 , Genesis 22:18 ), and which was a repetition and amplification of the covenant and promise already recorded in Genesis 12:1-3 ; Genesis 15:1-21 .; Genesis 17:1-8 , was made πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας , with a view to, in the direction of, the fathers, so as to include them and their children after them. It was now fulfilled to those whom St. Peter was addressing, as is set forth in the next verse.