Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 16:10

10. For thou will not leave my soul in hell ; neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption .

(i. e.) My Person, as this word is every where used, by a Syne[illegible: 1+ letters]doche of the part, and then the Person by another Synecdoche of the whole is put for the Body. The soul is oft put for the Body, either for the living Body, as Psal. 35. 13. and 105. 18. or for the Carkass or dead Body, as it is taken, Levit. 19. 28. and 21. 1. Numb. 5. 2. and 6. 6. 9. 11. and 9, 10. and 19. 11. 13. And so it is interpreted in this very place, as it is produced, Act. 2. 29, &c. and 13. 36, 37.

(i. e.) In the Grave or state of the Dead, as appears, 1. From the Hebrew word Scheol, which is very frequently so understood, as is undeniably evident from Gen. 42. 38. Numb. 16. 30. Iob 14. 13. Comp. with 17. 13. Psal. 18. 5. and 30. 3. and 141. 7. Eccles. 9, 10. Ezek. 32. 21, 27. Ionab 2, 2. and many other places. 2. From the following clause of this Verse. 3. From Act. 2. and 13. where it is so expounded and applied.

(i. e.) Me thy holy Son, whom thou hast sanctified and sent into the World. It is peculiar to Christ, to be called the holy one of God, Mark. 1. 24. Luk. 4. 34.

Or Rottenness, (i. e.) To be corrupted or putrified in the Grave, as the Bodies of others are. Seeing is oft put for perceiving by experience. In which [illegible: 1 word] men are said to see good, Psal. 34. 13. and to [illegible: 1 word] Death, or the Grave, Psal. 89. 48 Luk. 2. 26. Io[illegible: 1+ letters]. 8. 51. and to see sleep, Eccles. 8. 16. And the Hebrew word [illegible: 1 word] ▪ though sometimes by a Metonymy it signifies the Pit or place of Corruption, yet properly and generally it signifies Corruption or Perdition▪ as Iob 17. 14. and 33. 18. 30. Psal. 35. 7. and 55. [illegible: 1+ letters]3. Ion[illegible: 1+ letters]. 2. 6. and is so rendred by the seventy Jewish Interpreters, Psal. 107. 20. Prov. 28. 10. Ier. 13, 14, and 15. 3 Lament. 4. 20. Ezek. 19. 4. and 21. 31. And so it must be understood here, although some of the Jews to avoid the force of this Argument render it the Pit. But in that Sence it is not true, for, whether it be meant of David, as they say, or of Christ, it is confessed that both of them did see the Pit, (i. e.) Were laid in the Grave. And therefore it must necessarily be taken in the other Sence now mentioned; and so it is properly and literally true in Christ alone, although it may in a lower and Metaphorical Sence be applied to David, who had a just and well grounded Confidence, that although God might bring him into great Dangers and Distresses, which are called the sorrows of Death, and the pains of Hell, Psal. 116. 3. yet God would not leave him to Perish in or by them.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] ▪ 2. 31. ▪ 13. 35.