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Christ's Descent into Hell 9

Descensus Christi

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And the Lord, holding the hand of Adam, delivered him to Michael the archangel: and all the saints followed Michael the archangel, and he led them all into the glorious grace of paradise.

2And there met them two men, ancient of days.

3The saints asked them: Who are you, that have not yet been dead, along with us in the regions below, and have been placed in paradise in the body?

4One of them answered, and said: I am Enoch, who by the word of the Lord have been translated hither; and he who is with me is Elias the Thesbite, who was taken up by a fiery chariot.

5Here also even until now we have not tasted death, but have been reserved to the coming of Antichrist, by divine signs and wonders to do battle with him, and, being killed by him in Jerusalem, after three days and half a day to be taken up alive again in the clouds.

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About Christ's Descent into Hell

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. English text: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 8, The Gospel of Nicodemus, Part II: The Descent of Christ into Hell (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co.), Alexander Walker, 1886 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 8, The Gospel of Nicodemus, Part II: The Descent of Christ into Hell (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co.), Alexander Walker (1886) · public domain