An Orthodox Catechism

    The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), Zacharias Ursinus

    Question 44

    THE SECOND PART, OF MANS DELIVERIE

    1. Why is there added: He descended into hel?

      That in my greatest paines and most grieuous tentations I may support my selfe with this comfort, that my Lorde Iesus Christ hath deliuered me, (by the vnspeakable distresses, torments, and terrors of his soul, into which he was plūged both before, and then especially, when hee hanged on the crosse) from the straits and tormentes of hel.

      Isaiah 53:10; Matthew 27:46

      Isaiah 53:10

      Matthew 27:46