"Who shall declare his generation?" ...

[VeryTas]

... That is how the old Douay-Rheims (DR) and KJV Bibles were content to render the Greek of Acts 8:33. Newer translations are different but make less sense. Here's why.
Deacon Philip told the Ethiopian about Jesus "beginning with this scripture". How then might Philip have started out? Jesus is the innocent lamb led without protest through an unjust trial to Crucifixion. But what about, "who will declare his generation? ... for his life is taken up from the earth"? Well, judging partly from the man's faith that "Jesus Christ is the Son of God" (vs. 37, omitted by many newer translations), we can imagine that Philip had explained that Jesus' life was taken from the earth by his resurrection and ascension and that therefore (the "for") his generation was from God (being the only-begotten and incarnate Son). And so one answer to that question posed in Isaiah is that Philip, and now too the Ethiopian, will declare it. And we too.
We hear "generation" too demographically these days, but it should continue, in contexts like this in Acts, to be able to mean: the way someone is generated.