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From: "Georgi Vasilev" <[log in to unmask]>
> I have read the very informative lecture of Bishop Hilarion
Alfeyev: "Christ the Conqueror of Hell".
My only objection he is not quoting the basic texts depicting Christ's
descent: Nicodemus' Gospel and Epiphanius' Homily.
> In Christ:
> Georgi Vasilev<
I think that
1. the bishop is more concerned to base his lecture on the writings of
acknowledged Church Fathers and not on an apocryphal Gospel.
2. the section on the Harrowing of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus does not
exist in the Greek text. Consequently it is unknown to the Greek East and
the Greek Church Fathers. It is a late Latin text interpolated into the
Latin version of this Gospel. Best to check if I have this accurately
though.
Hristos voskrese!
Fr Ambrose
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