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Descent of Christ into Hell

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Chapter 6

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Chapter 6 (22).

Immediately Hades cried out: We have been conquered: woe to

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us

!

But

who

art

thou

,

that

hast

such

power

and

might

?

and

what

art

thou

,

who

comest

here

without

sin

who

art

seen

to

be

small

and

yet

of

great

power

,

lowly

and

exalted

,

the

slave

and

the

master

,

the

soldier

and

the

king

,

who

hast

power

over

the

dead

and

the

living

?

Thou

wast

nailed

on

the

cross

,

and

placed

in

the

tomb

;

and

now

thou

art

free

,

and

hast

destroyed

all

our

power

.

Art

thou

then

the

Jesus

about

whom

the

chief

satrap

Satan

told

us

,

that

through

cross

and

death

thou

art

to

inherit

the

whole

world

?

Then the King of glory seized the chief satrap Satan by the head, and delivered him to His angels, and said: With iron chains bind his hands and his feet, and his neck, and his mouth. Then He delivered him to Hades, and said: Take him, and keep him secure till my second appearing.