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Question 44

On Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Q. 44

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Why is there added: He descended into hel?

That in my greatest paines and most grieuous tentations I may support my selfe with this comfort, that my Lorde Iesus Christ hath deliuered me, (by the vnspeakable distresses, torments, and terrors of his soul, into which he was plūged both before, and then especially, when hee hanged on the crosse) from the straits and tormentes of hel.a

Proofs

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

  1. aIsaiah 53:10; Matthew 27:46

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