“He who after his venerable and life-giving passion and death went down into the region of the infernal abode suddenly introduced the light of his majesty upon those who were shrouded in death, so that he might free those who were being held among the dead in expectation of his arrival, as the Lord himself in the person of Wisdom says through Solomon: ‘I will go down into the depths of the earth and gaze upon all those who are asleep, and I shall enlighten those who hope in God’.”
(Chromatius, ‘Tractate on Matthew’)
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