Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell
This is an apostrophe, or an address to his Father, who he
believed would not leave his soul, as separate from his body, in
Hades, in the invisible world of souls, in the place where the
souls of departed saints are, but would quickly return it to its
body, and reunite them; or else, that he would not leave his dead
body, for so (vpn)
sometimes signifies; see ( Leviticus
19:28 ) ( 21:1 ) (
Numbers
9:10 ) ( Numbers
19:11 Numbers
19:13 ) in the grave; which is no unusual sense of
(lwav) ; see ( Genesis
42:38 ) ( Isaiah 38:18
) that is, so long as to be corrupted and putrefy, as the next
clause shows:
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption.
The character of an "Holy One" well agrees with Christ, both as
God, or with respect to his divine nature, holiness being a
perfection in it, and in which he is glorious; and as man, he
being holy in his nature, harmless in his life and conversation:
all his doctrines were pure and holy, and so were all his works;
and all his administrations in the discharge of every of his
office; and he is the efficient cause and lain of all the
holiness of his people; they are sanctified in him, and by him,
and have all their sanctification from him. The word may be
rendered, "thy merciful", or "bountiful one"; and such Christ is,
a merciful, as well as faithful high priest; and who has shown
great compassion both to the bodies and souls of men, and has
been very beneficent and liberal in the distributions of his
grace and goodness. Now, though he died, and was laid in the
grave, and buried, yet God would not suffer him to lie there so
long as to be corrupted and putrefied, which is the sense of
seeing corruption: and so the Jews themselves explain the last
clause of the preceding verse, in connection with this, "my flesh
shall rest in hope", that no worm or maggot should have power
over it, or corrupt it.
``Seven fathers (they say F24) dwell in eternal glory, and there is no (helwtw hmr) , "worm or maggot", rules over them; and these are they, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and Aaron, and Amram their father; and there are that say also David, as it is said, ( Psalms 16:1-11 ) , "therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth, my flesh also shall rest in hope".''And which sense also is mentioned by one of their commentators of note F25, who thus paraphrases the words:
``whilst I am alive it shall rest safely, for thou wilt deliver me from all hurt; and in the mystical sense, or according to the Midrash, after death; intimating, that no maggot or worm should have power over him;''which was not true of David, but is of the Messiah.