Question 44

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Why is there added, “he descended into hell?”

That in my greatest temptations, I may be assured, and wholly comfort myself in this, that my Lord Jesus Christ, by his inexpressible anguish, pains, terrors, and hellish agonies, in which he was plunged during all his sufferings, but especially on the cross, hath delivered me from the anguish and torments of hell.^a

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

aIsaiah 53:10; Matthew 27:46

Commentary

Jeremias Bastingius, A Catechisme of Christian Religion, with the Arguments and Use (1591), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on Q. 40–44

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