#Harrowing of Hell

[dramoor]

“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

~Matthew 12:40

(Art by Gustave Dore)

[orthodoxadventure]

Jaume Serra, Altarpiece of the Resurrection: Descent into Hell Late 14th century

[joehills]

LOL at everyone asking why I retumbled that table-flipping mblr earlier.

You know I've got Evan Dahm's originals from the Harrowing of Hell of this scene hanging in my apartment, right?

[thischristianguy]

A nice and gentle harrowing for once

No Satan getting dunked on, sorry

@apocrypals

[lionofchaeronea]

Christ in Limbo (from the Great Passion woodcut series), Albrecht Dürer, 1510

[illustratus]

Christ's Descent into Limbo by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hans Rottenhammer

[barbelzoa]

NO PEACE IN THE VALLEY, THERE SHALL BE NO RELIEF FROM THIS GREAT WEIGHT

[thyateira]

What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps; the earth was in terror and was still, because God slept in the flesh and raised up those who were sleeping from the ages. God has died in the flesh, and the underworld has trembled.

Truly he goes to seek out our first parent like a lost sheep; he wishes to visit those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. He goes to free the prisoner Adam and his fellow-prisoner Eve from their pains, he who is God, and Adam's son.

The Lord goes in to them holding his victorious weapon, his cross. When Adam, the first created man, sees him, he strikes his breast in terror and calls out to all: 'My Lord be with you all.' And Christ in reply says to Adam: ‘And with your spirit.’ And grasping his hand he raises him up, saying: ‘Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

‘I am your God, who for your sake became your son, who for you and your descendants now speak and command with authority those in prison: Come forth, and those in darkness: Have light, and those who sleep: Rise.

‘I command you: Awake, sleeper, I have not made you to be held a prisoner in the underworld. Arise from the dead; I am the life of the dead. Arise, O man, work of my hands, arise, you who were fashioned in my image. Rise, let us go hence; for you in me and I in you, together we are one undivided person.

‘For you, I your God became your son; for you, I the Master took on your form; that of slave; for you, I who am above the heavens came on earth and under the earth; for you, man, I became as a man without help, free among the dead; for you, who left a garden, I was handed over to Jews from a garden and crucified in a garden.

‘Look at the spittle on my face, which I received because of you, in order to restore you to that first divine inbreathing at creation. See the blows on my cheeks, which I accepted in order to refashion your distorted form to my own image.

'See the scourging of my back, which I accepted in order to disperse the load of your sins which was laid upon your back. See my hands nailed to the tree for a good purpose, for you, who stretched out your hand to the tree for an evil one.

`I slept on the cross and a sword pierced my side, for you, who slept in paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side healed the pain of your side; my sleep will release you from your sleep in Hades; my sword has checked the sword which was turned against you.

‘But arise, let us go hence. The enemy brought you out of the land of paradise; I will reinstate you, no longer in paradise, but on the throne of heaven. I denied you the tree of life, which was a figure, but now I myself am united to you, I who am life. I posted the cherubim to guard you as they would slaves; now I make the cherubim worship you as they would God.

"The cherubim throne has been prepared, the bearers are ready and waiting, the bridal chamber is in order, the food is provided, the everlasting houses and rooms are in readiness; the treasures of good things have been opened; the kingdom of heaven has been prepared before the ages.

The Lord's descent into hell - A reading from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday.

1. Jesus is Taken down from the Cross - Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne // 2. The Valley of Tears - Gustave Doré // 3. Anastasis fresco - Chora Church, Turkey // 4. Christ in Hell - Sascha Schneider // 5. The Ressurection - Solovetsky Monastery // 6. Ecce Homo - Mihály Munkácsy // 7. Ecce Homo - Peter Paul Rubens // 8. Resurrection of Christ - Worms Cathedral // 9. The Harrowing of Hell - Fra Angelico // 10. Coronation of the Virgin - Fra Angelico // 11. The Last Judgement - Michelangelo

[arinewman7]

Christ in Limbo

Paul Cézanne

oil on canvas, ca. 1867

[signum-crucis]

The Harrowing of Hell -- follower of Jan Mandijn (c. 1500-1560)

Hymn for Holy Saturday © David Schütz, Sing Lustily and with Good Courage!

Today a heavy silence reigns over all the earth; a silence and a stillness, and not a word is heard. The King Himself is sleeping, the trembling earth is still, our God-made-flesh, though resting, now consummates His will. He’s gone in search of Adam, our father, His lost sheep; He visits those in darkness and in death’s shadow deep. He’s gone to free from sorrow lost Adam in his bonds, and Eve, with him held captive, who for her freedom longs. Thus says their true Creator and truest Son of Eve, “I order you, O sleeper, awake from death and live! For I did not create you to lie in Hades’ cell. I am your Resurrection; you dead, arise from hell!

[apilgrimpassingby]

Earth covers Me by My own will. But the doorkeepers of Hades shudder and quake, as they behold that I am clothed in the bloodstained garment of vengeance. After I smite My enemies with the Cross, as God, O Mother, I will rise again and magnify you.

From the Lamentations of Good Friday.

I am the Word who spoke no word / ten thousand angels waiting for my call! - I Am, Theocracy

Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? -Matthew 26:53

[victusinveritas]

[careful-disorder]

Andrei Rublev, Harrowing of Hell

[harrowing-dump]

Uh oh. Look out, Hel.

Looks like someone is coming . . .

[lionofchaeronea]

The Harrowing of Hell. Sculpture (alabaster with gilding) by an unknown English artist active in the 15th century. Now in the Honolulu Museum of Art.

[apilgrimpassingby]

Magnify, o my soul, Him Who suffered willingly and was buried and rose from the grave on the third day.

Shine, shine, o New Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon thee. Now dance for joy and be glad, o Zion! And thou, pure mother of God, rejoice in the rising of Him Who thou didst bear!

Magnify, o my soul, Christ the Life-Giver, Who rose from the grave on the third day

Shine, shine, o New Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon thee. Now dance for joy and be glad, o Zion! And thou, pure mother of God, rejoice in the rising of Him Who thou didst bear!

Ode 9 of the Paschal Canon