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Every Christian knows the story: Jesus was crucified on Good (?) Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday.

What did Jesus do on Holy Saturday?

Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and most mainline Protestant churches teach that Jesus descended to the realm of the dead on Holy Saturday to save righteous souls, such as the Hebrew patriarchs, who died before his crucifixion.

An ancient homily included in the Catholic readings for Holy Saturday says a "great silence" stilled the earth while Jesus searched for Adam, "our first father, as for a lost sheep."

On Good Friday, Jesus told the Good Thief crucified alongside him that "today you will be with me in paradise," according to Luke's Gospel.

Wayne Grudem, a former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, says the confusion and arguments could be ended by correcting the Apostles' Creed "once and for all" and excising the line about the descent.

But the harrowing of hell remains a central tenet of Eastern Orthodox Christians, who place an icon depicting the descent at the front of their churches as Saturday night becomes Easter Sunday. It remains there, venerated and often kissed, for 40 days.

"The icon that represents Easter for us is not the empty cross or tomb," said Peter Bouteneff, a theology professor at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, N.Y. "It's Christ's descent into Hades."

Гадес.

Hadas.

Graikų Hade visi mirusieji tilpo.

Hado vietos atributai yra panaudoti kuriant krikščioniškojo pragaro sampratą.

Hadas (gr. ᾍδης arba Ἅιδης „nematytas“).

Naujojojo Testamento autoriai, versdami Senojo Testamento citatas, žodį "šeolas" keitė graikišku atitikmeniu "Hadas".

Šeolas (hebr. שאול „duobė“, „požeminis pasaulis“, „numirusiųjų vieta“) – šumerų ir judėjų pomirtinis pasaulis. Pagal šumerus tai yra vieta, kur po mirties numirėliai norėdami išgyventi valgo purvą. Judėjų Tanache šeolas aprašomas kaip tyli, dulkėta požeminė vieta su uždarais vartais, kur po mirties miega ir laukia savo teismo visi mirę žmonės – geras ir blogas, teisusis ir neteisusis, karalius ir vergas.

Sako, kad Tanache nėra kai kurių į Senąjį testamentą įtrauktų judėjų knygų, kurias protestantai laiko apokrifinėmis.

שאול

Pragaras.

Ад.


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