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The soul of Jesus experienced both states
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Eustathius is explaining that the soul of Jesus has experience of both the realm of human souls and existence apart from the flesh.
From the interpretation of Psalm 15 : But indeed, the soul of Jesus had experience of both states. For it came to be in the region of human souls, and having come to be outside the flesh, it lives and subsists.
Greek Commentarius in Psalmum [Sp.] (fragmenta) ̓Εκ τῆς ἑρμηνείας τοῦ ιεʹ ψαλμοῦ· Ἀλλὰ μὴν ἡ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἑκατέρων πεῖραν ἔσχε. Γέγονε γὰρ καὶ ἐν τῷ χωρίῳ τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ψυχῶν, καὶ τῆς σαρκὸς ἐκτὸς γενομένη ζῇ καὶ ὑφέστηκε.
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About this text Commentary on a Psalm attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
Eustathius of Antioch (fl. c. 320–337) wrote this commentary on Psalm 15. He was bishop of Antioch and a defender of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism. The work survives only in fragments.
Eustathius interprets Psalm 15 to defend the full humanity of Christ's soul and the unity of his person. He argues that Jesus possessed a human soul as well as human flesh, and that the soul is rational and of the same substance as human souls, just as his flesh is of the same substance as human flesh, having come from Mary.
A reader will meet Jesus Christ, Mary, and God the Father. Eustathius quotes or alludes to Galatians 4:4, 'God sent his Son, born of a woman,' stressing that it uses the singular because the person of Christ is one. He denies that this means one nature, or that flesh and divinity share the same substance, but affirms one Lord Jesus Christ, known in the distinction of natures. The author cites Psalm 15 according to the Septuagint numbering.
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