“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.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:27
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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