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Descent of Christ into Hell

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 2 (18).

I Karinus. O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the

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living

God

,

permit

me

to

speak

of

Thy

wonders

which

Thou

hast

done

in

the

lower

world

.

When

,

therefore

,

we

were

kept

in

darkness

and

the

shadow

of

death

in

the

lower

world

,

suddenly

there

shone

upon

us

a

great

light

,

and

Hades

and

the

gates

of

death

trembled

.

And

then

was

heard

the

voice

of

the

Son

of

the

Father

most

high

,

as

if

the

voice

of

a

great

thunder

;

and

loudly

proclaiming

,

He

thus

charged

them

:

Lift

up

your

gates

,

ye

princes

;

lift

up

the

everlasting

gates

;

the

King

of

glory

,

Christ

the

Lord

,

will

come

up

to

enter

in

.

Then Satan, the leader of death, came up, fleeing in terror, saying to his officers and the powers below: My officers, and all the powers below, run together, shut your gates, put up the iron bars, and fight bravely, and resist, lest they lay hold of us, and keep us captive in chains. Then all his impious officers were perplexed, and began to shut the gates of death with all diligence, and by little and little to fasten the locks and the iron bars, and to hold all their weapons grasped in their hands, and to utter howlings in a direful and most hideous voice.

Notes

1
Ornamenta; another ms. has armamenta.