By whom also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
With the same law of His being He fully complied, by remaining in Hades in the form and condition of a dead man; nor did He ascend into the heights of heaven before descending into the lower parts of the earth, that He might there make the patriarchs and prophets partakers of Himself.