Saturday, April 07, 2007

Descent into Hell

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (Jn 1:5)


For the East the image of Redemption is the descent into Hades: the bursting open of the eternally-closed gate, when Christ stretches out his hand to the first Adam who, hardly trusting his eyes, sees the Easter light in the darkness of death.



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