Acts 2:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Therefore, because of God's nearness to or presence with him, did my heart rejoice; Christ's and his people's joy is solid and true, real and inward, and may bear the test, res severa est verum gaudium. My tongue; in Psalms 16:9, it is my glory, as the tongue is frequently called; communicating our thoughts or apprehensions by speech, being the excellency of a reasonable creature. My flesh; or my body. Shall rest; or be in the grave, as in a tabernacle, ordinarily a movable, always no durable abiding place. In hope; that is, of the resurrection, and going out of that tabernacle of the grave.

Acts 2:26

26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: