Acts 2:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. ”

• Acts 2:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou wilt not leave my soul - The word “soul,” with us, means “the thinking, the immortal part of man,” and is applied to it whether existing in connection with the body or separate from it. The...

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• Acts 2:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Because thou wilt not (t) leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (t) You will not allow me to remain in the grave.

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• Acts 2:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Peter Explains the Occurrence. Peter is, as before, the mouthpiece of the community. His speech is not addressed to foreigners but to the people of Jerusalem, and shows us, as his other speeches do...

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• Acts 2:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  leave . forsake, or abandon. Greek. enkataleipo. Occurs nine times. Always translated "forsake", except here and Romans 9:29 . my soul . me. App-110. in . into. App-104. hell. App-131. n...

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• Acts 2:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  27. Because thou shalt not leave To leave the soul in hell is to suffer the same to be oppressed with destruction. There be two words used in this place, both which do signify the grave amon...

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• Acts 2:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell - Εις Ἁιδου, in hades, that is, the state of separate spir...

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• Acts 2:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell - х eis ( G1519 ) hadeen ( G86 ),...

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• Acts 2:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Day of Pentecost 1-13. Pentecost. On this day the risen Lord fulfilled His promise to send another Comforter (or Advocate) 'that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of Truth, whom...

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• Acts 2:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. — Literally, in Hades. (See Note on Matthew 11:23 .) As interpreted by St. Peter’s words in his Epistle ( 1 Peter 3:19 ), the words conveyed to his mind the...

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• Acts 2:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  David's Lord and Ours Acts 2:25-36 When one considers the vast result of this address, one wonders at its simplicity. It is almost entirely a string of apt quotations. But what may not the Word...

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• Acts 2:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The first paragraph of this chapter records the first page of the history of the Church. It is seen as it began to form. The separated units of the disciples were fused into the new unity of the Chur...

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• Acts 2:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: (15) For these a...

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• Acts 2:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ,.... This is an apostrophe, or an address to his Father, who he believed would not leave his soul, as separate from his body, in Hades, in the invisible...

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• Acts 2:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Ver. 27. My soul in hell ] That is, my body in the grave. So Revelation 20:13 . Death and...

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• Acts 2:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For David speaketh concerning him Namely, Psalms 16:8-11 , where see the notes. I foresaw the Lord always before my face In the Psalm, according to the Hebrew, it is, I have set the Lord always...

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• Acts 2:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The feast of Pentecost in Israel looked forward to the very day on which God had decreed that the Spirit of God should come to form and indwell and empower the Church of God, which Christ had declare...

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• Acts 2:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Peter's Sermon at Jerusalem.       14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judæa, a...

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• Acts 2:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBHeb;OLBGrk; My soul; that is, me: the soul is put for the person, as Romans 13:1 , Let every soul be subject; and sometimes for a dead body, as Leviticus 19:28 Numbers 5:2 , and in d...

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• Acts 2:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Peter's Reply (2:14-36). In his reply Peter reveals a combination of what he has learned through the ministry of Jesus, and what Jesus had made clear to His disciples over His resurrection appeara...

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• Acts 2:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 2:22 . Mighty works, wonders, and signs .—Compare 2 Corinthians 12:12 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ; Hebrews 2:4 . Of these terms, the first, δυνάμεις, refers to the powers by...

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• Acts 2:27 - Scofield Reference Notes

  hell Hades. ( See Scofield) - ( Luke 16:23 ).

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• Acts 2:27 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 2 We have here the history of the first Christian revival. Let us trace it through, and mark at once its origin and its characteristics. I. It was ushered in by prayer. Like true children of...

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• Acts 2:27 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  We cannot too often read the story of that wondrous outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; and let us never read it without asking the Lord to manifest in our midst the fullness of th...

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• Acts 2:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 2:1 . The day of Pentecost. The fiftieth day after our Lord's resurrection, and the day when the sheaf of the firstfruits was offered. Though the feast of Pentecost was but one day, yet like...

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• Acts 2:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But Peter standing up with the eleven. The scene Never was such an audience assembled as that before which this poor fisherman appeared: men of different nations, rapidly and earnestly speaking...

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• Acts 2:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 2:1 Was now come for was fully come, A.V.; all together for with one accord, A.V. and T.R. When the day of Pentecost was now come ; literally, when the day of Pent...

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• Acts 2:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The proof from David:

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• Acts 2:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:52 ; 1 Corinthians 15:55 ; 1 John 2:20 ; Acts 3:14 ; Acts 4:27 ; Acts 13:27-37 ; Acts 2:31 ; Job 19:25-27 ; John 11:39 ; Jonah 2:6 ; Luke 1:35 ; Luke 16:23 ; Luke 4:34 ;...

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• Acts 2:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Thou wilt not leave my soul in hades — The invisible world. But it does not appear, that ever our Lord went into hell. His soul, when it was separated from the body, did not go thither, but to para...

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