“Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:”
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, — the heart's gladness (chara, joy), the tongue's joy (agalliao, exultation), and bodily rest in hope (elpis, hope as confident expectation) describe the resurrection's fruit: not merely spiritual survival but embodied vindication. The psalmist's joy is the joy of resurrection, of divine promise kept, of death overcome.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:26
For David says (with reference) to Him. Acts 2:25 And observe how, once more, the testimony is lowly. For therefore he begins the citation further up, with the matters of lowlier import: therefore was death not in the number of grievous things [because], says he, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, that He is on my right hand that I should not be moved: Acts 2:25-27 and, that You will not leave my soul in hell. Then, having finished the citation from the Prophet, he…
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