³⁶ For David, after he had served God’s will and purpose and counsel in his own generation, fell asleep [^[a]in death] and was buried among his forefathers, and he did see corruption and undergo putrefaction and dissolution [of the grave].

12 Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us,