Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 1:18

18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore , Amen ; and have the keys of hell and of death .

The living God, who had Life in my self, and gave life to the World, but assumed the Human Nature, and was made Man, and in that Nature died, but I rose again from thedead, and shall die no more, but ever live to make Intercession for my People.

This is a great Truth.

And have a Power to kill, and cast into Hell; or I have the Power over Death, and the state of the Dead, so as I can raise those that are dead, to life again; I have the command of Death, whether Temporal or Eternal; as he who hath the Keys of an House can let in, and shut out of it whom he pleaseth, so I bring to Heaven, and throw to Hell whom I please.

Marginal references: Rom. 6.9.; Psal. 68.20. Chap. 20.1.