because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (t) You will not allow me to remain in the grave.
The Hebrew words for soul and grave both belong to death's vocabulary, Sheol because death never satisfies its hunger, Shachat because it means corruption itself. Peter is not laboring to prove Christ descended into hell; that disputes what the prophet never meant to establish. Soul here signifies life itself, not some immortal essence floating separate. What matters is that God would not leave His Holy One abandoned to the grave's dominion.
AI summary
PETER FOR THE FIRST TIME, PUBLICLY PREACHES CHRIST. (Acts 2:14-36) Peter, standing up with the eleven--in advance, perhaps, of the rest.
Commenting on Acts 2:14-36