Jesus was designated Son of God by the resurrection from the dead. It is the resurrection that principally sets Him apart and validates His claim to deity. Had Jesus not risen from the dead, He would be remembered today only as a Jewish moralist who had some inflated ideas about his own relationship to God and made a number of ridiculous demands on those who wanted to be His disciples. But, because He rose from the dead, His teachings about Himself are true and His requirements for discipleship must be accepted.
Verse four has three parallel prepositional phrases:
1. "in power," 2. "according to a spirit of holiness," and 3. "by a resurrection of dead persons".
It is clear that the third phrase completes the major clause. He was "declared … to be the son of God … by His resurrection from the dead." The other two phrases are here to be understood. The first ("in power") is best described as the powerful status of the resurrected Christ, as having this power from His Deity. He was installed as Son of God with power. He lived his life in complete and perfect holiness. When He was being accused by the Temple Jews, who took up stones to stone Him, He asked them:
John 10:32
Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me (KJV)?
So, since they could find no fault within Him, they accused Him of making Himself out to be God, (John 10:33).
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