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<blockquote>... the fate of those who had died before the gospel was preached.... Christ went down “in the spirit,” says Peter, into Hades,... in order to offer salvation to sinners who had died without hearing the gospel and getting a chance to repent.... In the apocryphal Gospel According to St. Peter (ca. <small>A</small>.<small>D</small>. 130), among the wonders attending the [[Crucifixion]] we read the question, “Hast thou preached to those who have fallen asleep?” To which the answer was heard from the Cross, “Yes.” And in the Middle Ages the harrowing of hell was a common theme in popular poetry and theology.<ref>''The Interpreter's Bible'', 12 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1957), 12:132, 133.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>... the fate of those who had died before the gospel was preached.... Christ went down “in the spirit,” says Peter, into Hades,... in order to offer salvation to sinners who had died without hearing the gospel and getting a chance to repent.... In the apocryphal Gospel According to St. Peter (ca. <small>A</small>.<small>D</small>. 130), among the wonders attending the [[Crucifixion]] we read the question, “Hast thou preached to those who have fallen asleep?” To which the answer was heard from the Cross, “Yes.” And in the Middle Ages the harrowing of hell was a common theme in popular poetry and theology.<ref>''The Interpreter's Bible'', 12 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1957), 12:132, 133.</ref></blockquote> | ||
== Jesus’ account of this event == | [[File:Descent into Hell 1933.jpg|thumb|''Descent into Hell'', Nicholas Roerich (1933)]] | ||
== The Ascended Master Jesus’ account of this event == | |||
In a dictation delivered on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1969, through the Messenger [[Mark L. Prophet]], Jesus said he had come to exhort us with the same sermon he had preached to | In a dictation delivered on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1969, through the Messenger [[Mark L. Prophet]], Jesus said he had come to exhort us with the same sermon he had preached to | ||