Psa 16:9-10 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 9. Therefore my heart is glad ] Unutterably happy in God; always full of the Divine presence; because whatsoever I do pleaseth him. The man Christ Jesus must be constantly in communion with God, because he was without spot and blemish. My glory rejoiceth ] My tongue , so called by the Hebrews, (see ,) because it was bestowed on us to glorify God, and because it is our glory , being the instrument of expressing our thoughts by words. See Dodd . But soul bids as fair to be the meaning. , &c. My flesh also shall rest in hope. ] There is no sense in which these and the following words can be spoken of David. Jesus, even on the cross, and breathing out his soul with his life, saw that his rest in the grave would be very short: just a sufficiency of time to prove the reality of his death, but not long enough to produce corruption ; and this is well argued by St. Peter, .

‏ Psalms 16:9-10

Verse 9. Therefore my heart is glad] Unutterably happy in God; always full of the Divine presence; because whatsoever I do pleaseth him. The man Christ Jesus must be constantly in communion with God, because he was without spot and blemish.

My glory rejoiceth] My tongue, so called by the Hebrews, (see Ps 57:8; 30:12,) because it was bestowed on us to glorify God, and because it is our glory, being the instrument of expressing our thoughts by words. See Dodd. But soul bids as fair to be the meaning. See Clarke on Ac 2:25, &c.

My flesh also shall rest in hope.] There is no sense in which these and the following words can be spoken of David. Jesus, even on the cross, and breathing out his soul with his life, saw that his rest in the grave would be very short: just a sufficiency of time to prove the reality of his death, but not long enough to produce corruption; and this is well argued by St. Peter, Ac 2:31.

Verse 10. Thine Holy One] This is in the plural number, chasideycha, thy Holy Ones; but none of the versions translate it in the plural; and as it is in the singular number, chasidecha, in several ancient editions, among which is the Complutensian Polyglot, and no less than two hundred and sixty-four of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and in the quotation by St. Peter, in Ac 2:27; 13:35, we may take it for granted that the present reading is a corruption; or that

is an emphatic singular.

As to leaving the soul in hell, it can only mean permitting the life of the Messiah to continue under the power of death; for sheol signifies a pit, a ditch, the grave, or state of the dead. See Clarke on Ac 2:25, &c.

See corruption.] All human beings see corruption, because born in sin, and liable to the curse. The human body of Jesus Christ, as being without sin, saw no corruption.