Acts 2:27

“Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, etc.] 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 world of souls, in the place where the souls of departed saints are, but would quickly return it to its body, and reunite them; or else, that he would not leave his dead body, for so çpn sometimes signifies; (see <031928>Leviticus 19:28, 21:1 <040910> Numbers 9:10, 19:11,13) in the grave; which is no unusual sense of lwaç; (see <014238>Genesis 42:38, <233818>Isaiah 38:18) that is, so long as to be corrupted and putrefy, as the next clause shows: neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see…”

“wilt not leave my soul in hell--in its disembodied state (see on Luk 16:23). neither . . . suffer thine Holy One to see corruption--in the grave.”

“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 Hebrew word translated “soul” here, נפשׁ nephesh, however, may mean “spirit, mind, life,” and may denote here nothing more than “me” or “myself.” It means, properly, “breath”; then “life,” or “the vital principle, a living being”; then “the soul, the spirit, the thinking part.” Instances where it is put for the individual himself, meaning “me” or “myself” may be seen in Psalms 11:1; Psalms 35:3, Psalms 35:7; Job 9:21. There is no clear instance in which it is applied to the soul in its separate…”

“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 paradise, Luk 23:43. The meaning is, Thou wilt not leave my soul in its separate state, nor suffer my body to be corrupted. Acts 2:28”

“2:27 among the dead: See study note on Matt 11:23.”

“leave: Psa 49:15, Psa 86:13, Psa 116:3; Luk 16:23; Co1 15:55; Rev 1:18, Rev 20:13 thine: Act 3:14, Act 4:27; Psa 89:19; Mar 1:24; Luk 1:35, Luk 4:34; Jo1 2:20; Rev 3:7 to see: Act 2:31, Act 13:27-37; Job 19:25-27; Jon 2:6; Joh 11:39; Co1 15:52 Acts 2:28”