{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1203","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>For this reason also were the eyes of the disciples weighed down when Christ's passion was approaching; and when, in the first instance, the Lord found them sleeping, He let it pass,-thus indicating the patience of God in regard to the state of slumber in which men lay; but coming the second time, He aroused them, and made them stand up, in token that His passion is the arousing of His sleeping disciples, on whose account \"He also descended into the lower parts of the earth,\"[330]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V</p><p>Then also the apostle says, \"But when He ascended, what is it but that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth? \"[264]</p><p>If, then, the Lord observed the law of the dead, that He might become the first-begotten from the dead, and tarried until the third day \"in the lower parts of the earth; \"[267]</p><p>Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus</p><p>who \"descended into the lower parts of the earth,\" and who \"ascended up above the heavens; \"[114]</p><p>Tertullian Against Praxeas</p><p>and also descends to the inner parts of the earth.[427]</p>","source_html_sha256":"76f9b064ebedc41e96ea6e3efc9367fd2616747bcf4b41d91164d790688e76df","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1203,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"cee3b9aaca61d0e5edb84b84327f80042d7229f591a011f06b0b8bf60b390d32","translator":null,"work":null}