Article 5 “HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN”
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Jesus “descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he
who also ascended far above all the heavens.”475 The Apostles’
Creed confesses in the same article Christ’s descent into hell and his
Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in his Passover it was
precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth:
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
- Article 5 “HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN”
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1Q.HTM