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John Trapp on Psalms 16:10

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Psalms16:10

Verſ. 10. For thou wilt not leave my ſoul in Hell] that is, my body in the grave, (—animam que ſepulchro condimus—) or in the State of the dead, Gen. 37.35. That Soul is ſometimes put for a carcaſs or dead corps, Virg. de Polydori funere. Aeneid. 3. See Job 14.22. Lev. 19.28. & 21. 1.11. Num. 5.2. & 6.6. & 19.13. which place is expounded, Ezek, 44.25. David can confidently write upon his grave Reſurgam, I ſhall riſe againſt. This, many Heathens had no hope of 1 Theſ. 4.13.

Cum ſemel occider is, Non Torquate, tuum genus, aut facundia, non te Reſtituet pietas, &c.Horat. lib. 4. od. 7.

Yet ſome Heathens beleeved both the immortality of the ſoul, and therefore durſt dye (—animaque capaces Mortis—) and the Reſurrection of the body, as did Zoroaſtes, Theopompus, Plato; and as do the Turks at this day.

Neither wilt thou ſuffer thine holy One, &c.] that is, the Meſſiah, that is to come out of my loines, and who ſaith to mee and all his Members (2s Iſa. 26.19.) in effect, Thy dead men ſhall live, together with my dead body ſhall they ariſe, awake and ſing ye that dwell in the duſt, &c. See the Note on the Title Michtam. The former part of this verſe ſeems to be ſpoken of David, the latter of Chriſt; like as Job. 35.15. the former part is of God, the latter of Job. See the Margin. Chriſts reſurrection is a cauſe, pledge and ſuerty of the Saints reſurrection to glory; for joy whereof Davids heart leapt within him. Chriſts body, though laid in the corrupting-pit, could not ſee, that is, feel corruption. It was therefore a pious errour in thoſe good women who brought their ſweet odours to embalm his dead body, Luke 24.1.

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