Verse 6 To them that are dead; that is, probably, to those who had been slain in the persecutions which the Christian had endured.-- That they might be judged, &c. that, though condemned by men to bodily death, their souls might be saved. Those who suppose that the passage 1 Peter 3:19,20, teaches that Christ went into the invisible world during the interval between his death and his resurrection, and made the offer of salvation to the departed spirits there, regard this verse as referring to the same circumstance