Because you will not leave my soul in hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.
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Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
For you will not abandon my soul to Hell:
It is written (1 Peter 3:19) that "Christ coming in spirit preached to those spirits that were in prison, which had some time been incredulous": and this is understood of Christ's descent into hell. Hence Damascene says "As He evangelized them who are upon the earth, so did He those who were in hell"; not in order to convert unbelievers unto belief, but to put them to shame for their unbelief, since preaching cannot be understood otherwise than as the open manifesting of His Godhead. which was laid bare before them in the lower regions by His descending in power into hell.
