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[Radix]

Execution on Friday, resurrection on Sunday: That is three days alright.

[lightman]

In the 2007 hymnbook Evangelical Lutheran Worship used by some congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America the phrase has been softened to "he descended to the dead"...supposedly because an ecumencial consultation on Common Texts has said to do so.

Strange, because the "full communion partner" Episcopal Church holds as ¶III of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Relgion:

III. Of the going down of Christ into Hell.

As Christ died for us, and was buried; so also it is to be believed, that he went down into Hell.

[A.A. Cunningham]

"Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water." 1 Peter 3:18-20

"Who shall render account to him, who is ready to judge the living and the dead. For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead: that they might be judged indeed according to men, in the flesh; but may live according to God, in the Spirit." 1 Peter 4:5-6

"Chap. 3, Ver. 19. Spirits that were in prison. See here a proof of a third place, or middle state of souls: for these spirits in prison, to whom Christ went to preach after His death, were not in heaven; nor yet in the hell of the damned: because heaven is no prison: and Christ did not go to preach to the damned." St. Jerome's commentary.