“Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay. — the Hades language (sheol, the grave) and the 'holy one' (hosios, devoted one, pious one) clearly reference Jesus in Peter's reading. The refusal of decay (diaphthora, corruption/decomposition) distinguishes Jesus' resurrection from mere resuscitation; his body is transformed, not revivified. This is the guarantor of the resurrection's objective, bodily reality.
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