Acts 2:27 (WEB)
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
Catechism · 1
“For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let your Holy One see corruption."” — Catechism footnote: Acts 2:26-27; cf. Ps 16:9-10.
Fathers and councils · 6
Gregory of Nyssa
“…interpretation of the great Peter, said with foresight of Him, “Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption,” while the Apostle Peter thus expounds the saying, that “His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvi. 8. Acts ii. 27, 31.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…was glad; moreover also, my flesh shall rest in hope: because Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou give Thy Holy One to see corruption.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 22–27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…is life and peace, He might, by righteousness conjoined with God, cancel the death of justified sinners, which He willed to have in common with them.” — editor's note: Not that our Lord is to be supposed, as some have held, to have been under the law of death in Adam, because “in Adam all die” (1 Cor. xv. 22; see the whole of…
Read the whole comment“And since His voice is acknowledged in the prophecy, “Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,” He has brought Him down to hell and brought Him up again.” — editor's note: Ps. xvi. 10; Acts ii. 27, 31.
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Tertullian
“…then, Christ was announced by the Creator, “who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,” as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,—it was demonstrated that they, by their being…” — editor's note: A supposed quotation of Amos iv. 13. See Oehler’s marginal reference. If so, the reference to Joel is either a slip of Tertullian or a corruption of his text;…
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Clement of Alexandria
“Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, Thou wilt make me full of joy in Thy presence.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvi. 9–11; Acts ii. 26–28.
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Cross-references · 10
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Cited together in Catechism §627.
Cited together in Catechism §627.
Cited together in Catechism §627.
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Quotes
Acts 2:27 takes up the words of Psalm 16:10 (16 words in common).
