Martin Luther on Psalms 121:7

Verse. 7. The Lord shall preserue thee from all euill: he shall preserue thy soule.

That which the verse going before hath expressed by an allegory, is here simply set forth and without figure. The soule here signifieth the life. Albeit therefore thou suffer neuer so greate and greuous afflictions, yea euen death it self, yet shalt thou not perish because God kepeth thy life. In outward appearance and to the iudgement of the flesh thou seemest to dye, but in deede it is not so, because thy life, euen the Lord thy God liueth, &c. So he saith in an other Psalme: Psal. 97. The Lorde preserueth the soules of his Sainctes.