Bible Review

Aquinas, Summa 3a.52.4, 3a.57.6.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 3a.52.2.

Pseudo-Bonaventure, Mediations on the Life of Christ, Meditation 85, trans. Isa Ragusa and Rosalie B. Green (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1961), pp. 350–351.

Gospel of Nicodemus, Descensus ad Infernos, 8–9. translated by J.K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).

Melito of Sardis, On the Pasch 102.

The Odes of Solomon 42:15–18.

Ignatius, To the Magnesians 9.2.

On the distinction between these two verses, see W.J. Dalton, Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits: A Study of 1 Peter 3:18–4:6, Analecta Biblica 23 (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1989); also John Elliott, 1 Peter, Anchor Bible series 37B (New York: Doubleday, 2000), pp. 648–665, 730–742.

The claim here is similar to that found in Colossians, where Jesus Christ is depicted as having “disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in him” (2:15).