John Gill's Exposition on Acts 2:31

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He seeing this before, etc.] Or by a spirit of prophecy foreseeing it, that according to God’s promise and oath, the Messiah would be raised up, and spring from his seed; and also by the same Spirit foresaw that he would suffer and die, and be laid in the grave, the pit of corruption: spake of the resurrection of Christ; from the dead, to the sense of the following words, in (<191610>Psalm 16:10). that his soul was not left in hell: neither his separate soul in Hades, nor his body in the grave; neither his flesh did see corruption; or his body, or his “carcass”, as the Syriac version renders it, did not lie so long in the grave as to rot and putrefy.

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