The "infallible proofs" spoken of in this verse are the Savior's many appearances as a resurrected being. The Greek word here means, literally, "sure signs or tokens." ("New Testament Apostles Testify of Christ." by D. Kelly Ogden and Andrew Skinner.)
Matthew B. Brown tells us that the Greek word translated as “infallible
proofs” in Acts
1:3 is a derivative of tekmerion which means “a
sure sign,” “a mark,” “a token”. (All Things Restored, p. xiii, footnote
#11. He uses Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament
Words and The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.)
Tyndale's Bible, the first English Bible translated from
Hebrew and Greek has "to whom also he shewed himself alive, after his
passion by many tokens, appearing unto them forty days, and spake
of the kingdom of God." While the 1599 Geneva Bible, the one the Pilgrims
brought with them from England has, "infallible
tokens."
Isaiah uses the description of a "sure place," in his writings. “I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle. . . . And the key of the House of David will I lay upon His shoulders, so He shall open and none shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten Him as a nail in a sure place." (Isaiah 22:21–23)
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