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The Harrowing of Hell, Petites Heures, 14th-century illuminated manuscript commissioned by John, Duke of Berry Christ leading Adam by the hand, depicted in the Vaux Passional, c. 1504 Before his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ grants salvation to souls by the Harrowing of Hell.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes Christ's descent into Hell as meaning primarily that "the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection. This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into Hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the ...
In English usage the word "Hades" first appears around 1600, as a transliteration of the Greek word "αΎ…δης" in the line in the Apostles' Creed, "He descended into hell", the place of waiting (the place of "the spirits in prison" 1 Peter 3:19) into which Jesus is there affirmed to have gone after the Crucifixion.
The Humiliation of Christ is a Protestant Christian doctrine that consists of the rejection and suffering that Jesus received and accepted, according to Christian belief. Within it are included his incarnation, suffering, death, burial, and sometimes descent into hell. [1]
descended into hell, rose again from the dead on the third day, 6. ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty, 7. inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos. who will come again to judge the living and the dead. 8. Credo in Spiritum Sanctum,
A detail from Hieronymus Bosch's depiction of Hell (16th century). In Christian theology, Hell is the place or state into which, by God's definitive judgment, unrepentant sinners pass in the general judgment, or, as some Christians believe, immediately after death (particular judgment).
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Dante's orderly hell is a representation of the structured universe created by God, one which forces its sinners to use "intelligence and understanding" to contemplate their purpose. [17] The nine-fold subdivision of hell is influenced by the Ptolemaic model of cosmology, which similarly divided the universe into nine concentric spheres. [18]