“(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?”
What does 'he ascended' mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions — Paul's hermeneutical move: if Christ ascended, he must first have katabainō ('descended') to ta katōtera ('the lower parts'), interpreted variously as incarnation, descent to Hades, or the humiliation-exaltation narrative.
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