Calvin:
“...Whence also it was necessary that he should engage, as it were, at close quarters with the powers of hell and the horrors of eternal death...”
Calvin states Christ engaged in the horrors of eternal death.
Of course, Christ descended to the dead, not hell. But according to Calvin he went to hell and suffered the full horrors.
My flippant remark about Lucifer was meant to be just that, flippant regarding Calvin.
>>Of course, Christ descended to the dead, not hell.<<
You didn’t see the other posts regarding exactly what Hell is.
>>But according to Calvin he went to hell and suffered the full horrors.<<
Not according to what you posted: “...Whence also it was necessary that he should engage, as it were, at close quarters with the powers of hell and the horrors of eternal death...”
A prison guard has “close quarters” with prison but is not “in prison” in the common usage of the phrase. And, again, Calvin’s use of the words there suggests possible confusion on his part, or a lack of clarity in his use of words, regarding the difference between hell and the lake of fire.