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The like sentence do we meet withal in the same Fathers epistle unto Eustathia, Ambrosia, and Basilissa. ^bHis body he caused by dispensation to be separated from his soul: but the indivisible deity being once knit with that subject, was neither dis-joined from the body, nor the soul. but was with the soul in Paradise, making way by the thief for an entrance unto mankind thither; and with the body in the heart of the earth, destroying him that had the power of death. Wherewith we may compare that place, which we meet withal in the works of S. ⟨p. 316⟩Gregory Bishop of Neocaesarea: wherein our Saviour is brought in speaking after this manner. ^cI must descend into the very bottom of Hell, for the dead that are detay-there. I must by the three days death of my flesh overthrow the power of long continuing death. I must light the lamp of my BODY unto them which sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. and that of S. Chrysostom (who is accounted also to be the author of that other sermon attributed unto S. Gregory:) ^dHow were the brazen gates broken, and the iron bars burst? By his BODY. For then appeared first a body immortal, and dissolving the tyranny of death it self: whereby was showed, that the force of death was taken away, not that the sins of those who dyed before his coming were dissolved. and that which we read in another place of his works: ^eHe spoiled Hell, descending into Hell: he made it bitter, when it tasted of his flesh. Which Isaiah understanding before hand, cried out, saying: Hell was made bitter, meeting thee below. (so the Septuagint render the words, Isaiah. 14.19.) It was made bitter: for it was destroyed. It was made bitter: for it was mocked. It received a BODY, and light upon God: it received Earth, and met with Heaven: it received that which it saw, and fell from that which it did not see. Thus Caesarius expounding the parable, Luk. 13.21. wherein the kingdom of God is likened unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in