Incarnation and the Descent into Hell

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Not hell, just the term is traditional and recognizable.

When Christ descended, Who descended? Just His human nature, just His divine nature, or both together? His human soul was separated from His human body at this time.
 
Not hell, just the term is traditional and recognizable.

When Christ descended, Who descended? Just His human nature, just His divine nature, or both together? His human soul was separated from His human body at this time.
Who said his human soul was seperated from his human body?
Jesus was killed, body and soul, Jesus descended into Hell, body and soul, Jesus resurrected, body and soul, Jesus ascended, body and soul.
 
Who said his human soul was seperated from his human body?
Jesus was killed, body and soul, Jesus descended into Hell, body and soul, Jesus resurrected, body and soul, Jesus ascended, body and soul.
I don’t know about the ‘body’ part decending into Hell. Wasn’t His body in the tomb for three days?

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Well, human death, by definition, is the separation of the human soul from the human body.

Jesus died as man. In death, his human soul departed his human body. So I presume it was his soul which descended into ‘hell’ to preach salvation to the souls who were already there.

Jesus is but one person, though, and that person is the second person of the Trinity. His person cannot be separated from his soul.
 
Well, human death, by definition, is the separation of the human soul from the human body.

Jesus died as man. In death, his human soul departed his human body. So I presume it was his soul which descended into ‘hell’ to preach salvation to the souls who were already there.

Jesus is but one person, though, and that person is the second person of the Trinity. His person cannot be separated from his soul.
 
I don’t know about the ‘body’ part decending into Hell. Wasn’t His body in the tomb for three days?

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I’m not sure we can know the answer to this question definitively. Reason being the question remains Did Jesus descend into Hell as in Gehanna, or did He descend into Scheol which would have been the Limbo of the Patriarchs. A different situation altogether. The issue has never been that Jesus descended and freed souls. The issue has been what was meant by Hell- Jewsih Scheol or Limbo of the Patriarchs, or the Gehanna of the damned. I’m not sure what the Church’s final position is. Have to check Aquinas.
 
The take on this question according to Augustine and Aquinas:

On the contrary, Augustine says (De Symbolo iii): “The whole Son is with the Father, the whole Son in heaven, on earth, in the Virgin’s womb, on the Cross, in hell, in paradise, into which He brought the robber.”
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I answer that, It is evident from what was said in I, 31, 2, ad 4, the masculine gender is referred to the hypostasis or person, while the neuter belongs to the nature. Now in the death of Christ, although the soul was separated from the body, yet neither was separated from the Person of the Son of God, as stated above (50, 2). Consequently, it must be affirmed that during the three days of Christ’s death the whole Christ was in the tomb, because the whole Person was there through the body united with Him, and likewise He was entirely in hell, because the whole Person of Christ was there by reason of the soul united with Him, and the whole Christ was then everywhere by reason of the Divine Nature.

Reply to Objection 1. The body which was then in the grave is not a part of the uncreated Person, but of the assumed nature. Consequently, the fact of Christ’s body not being in hell does not prevent the whole Christ from being there: but proves that not everything appertaining to human nature was there.

Reply to Objection 2. The whole human nature is made up of the united soul and body; not so the Divine Person. Consequently when death severed the union of the soul with the body, the whole Christ remained, but His whole human nature did not remain.

For the whole argument: newadvent.org/summa/4052.htm
 
St. Aquinas also proves that the Godhead remained united to the flesh when Christ died (III.L.II) and His Godhead was not separated from His soul (III.L.III).
 
Interesting. This will require some reading and reflection.
 
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