Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 16:9

9. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoyceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope ▪

Upon this ground and Confidence.

The proper seat of joy and of all the Affections.

Either 1. my soul, which is indeed the Glory of a man. Or rather 2. my Tongue, which also is a mans Glory and Priviledge, above all other living Creatures, and the Instrument of glorifying both God and man; and which is oft called a mans Glory, as Gen. 49. 6. Psal. 30. 12. and 57. 8. and 108. 1. and 149. 5. And so this very Word is translated, Act. 2. 26. And thus the distinction between Heart and Glory, and Flesh is more certain and evident.

Or, exsulteth, (i. e.) Declares or expresseth my inward joy. For this Verb signifies not so much internal joy, as the outward and visible Demonstrations of it, in Words or Gestures and Carriages.

(i. e.) My body shall quietly and [illegible: 1 word] rest in the Grave, to which I am hastening.

(i. e.) In confident assurance of it's Incorruption there, and of it's Resurrection to a blessed and immortal Life, as it is explained v. 10, 11. The flesh or body is in it self, but a dead and senceless lump of Clay, yet Hope is here ascribed to it figuratively, as it is to the brute Creatures, Rom. 8. 19. because there is Matter and Foundation for such hope, if it were capable of it, the good promised and expected being certainly future.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].