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

Bible Comments

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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 divers other places, vpg that signifies a soul, is so used. In hell; the word adhv is put either for the grave, or for the place of the damned. Being these words are alleged as a proof of Christ's resurrection, and that our Saviour's soul was certainly in paradise, where he promised to the penitent thief that he should be with him, it seems rather to be meant of the grave, which, according to this prophecy, could not hold our blessed Saviour's body so long as that it should corrupt in it. If David by his soul here did mean our Saviour, because he was as it were the soul of his soul, and life of his life, it shows how he did, and how we ought to value him. Thine Holy One; as being anointed, sanctified, and sent by God.

Acts 2:27

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