Pertanyaan: 802. Di mana Roh Yesus berada selama tiga hari tubuh-Nya berada di dalam kubur?
Ada sedikit dalam Kitab Suci yang dapat menerangi pertanyaan "Di mana roh Yesus berada selama tiga hari tubuh-Nya berada di dalam kubur?" Di antara para penulis awal, dan oleh banyak orang pada masa-masa kemudian, subjek ini telah dibahas. Syahadat Rasul mengatakan: "Dia turun ke dalam hades" (tempat roh yang telah meninggal). Beberapa teolog, termasuk Dean Alford, dalam membahas ayat di I Pet. 3:19, 20, berpendapat bahwa Kristus, dalam jangka waktu antara kematian dan kebangkitannya, memberitakan atau mengumumkan karya-Nya yang telah selesai kepada roh-roh yang "di dalam penjara"; tetapi ayat ini misterius dan selalu membingungkan para pelajar Alkitab. Pada awal gereja Kristen, ada beberapa tulisan tentang subjek ini yang mengaku menggambarkan pengangkatan orang-orang kudus dan bapa-bapa pra-Kristen yang Dia bebaskan dari hades dan membawa mereka ke dalam surga; tetapi tulisan-tulisan ini sudah lama dianggap tidak sah dan apokrif.
Question: 802. Where Was the Spirit of Jesus During the Three Days His Body Lay in the Tomb?
There is little in the Scriptures to throw light on the question "Where was the spirit of Jesus during the three days his body lay in the tomb?" Among the early writers, and by many of later days, the subject has been discussed. The Apostles' Creed says: "He descended into hades" (the place of departed spirits). Some theologians, Dean Alford among them, in discussing the passage in I Pet. 3:19, 20, contended that Christ, in the interval between his death and resurrection, preached or announced his finished work to the spirits "in prison" ; but the passage is mysteri- cms and has always puzzled Bible students. In the early days of the Christian Church, there were several writings on the subject professing to describe the exultation of the saints and the pre-Christian fathers whom he delivered from hades and brought into paradise ; but these writings have long ago been stamped as uncanonical and apocryphal.
