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I answer, that the hebrew word in the psalme, from whence this sentence is taken,* 1.1 is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and signifieth, a sepulchre or graue, and so doth your owne great linguiste Arias Montanus interpret it: as if the Prophet hadde saide, thou wilt not leaue my soule or life, in the graue. For the course
of holy scripture, doth comprehende our life vnder the name of the Soule: so saith the Prophet Ionas, therefore now O Lord take I beseech thee; my soule from me,* 1.2 for it is better for me to die, then to liue. So is it in the Hebrew and original, and yet by the word (soule) must we vnderstād life: for so the words following, doe require of necessitie: so saith Paul,* 1.3 trouble not your selues, anima enim ipsius in ipso est, for his soule (that is, his life) is in him: And a litle after, he saith thus;* 1.4 neither is my soule deare to me, so I may fulfil my course;* 1.5 where by ye word (soule) life must needs be vnderstood. So Ioseph was bidden to take the babe and his mother,* 1.6 & to go into the land of Isra∣el; because they were dead, that sought the babes soule, that is, his life: so Christ saith, that a good shepheard giueth his soule for the sheepe, that is, his life. These and other like places doe proue euidently that our soule in the scriptures, is taken for our life; so that when the scripture saith, God wil not suffer Christs soule to tarrie in the graue, it meaneth Christs life; as if it shoulde say, Christ shal not be long dead, death shall not swallow him vp, or preuaile against him.
Ps. l. 10. vers. 10.
Ionas. 4.••.
Act. 20.10.
Act. 20.24.
Mat. 2.20.
Ioan. 10.11.