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although separated from each other,
both remained with one and the same person of the
Word.~6° ‘You will not let your Holy One see
corruption’ 627 Christ’s
death was a real death in that it put an end to his 1009
earthly human existence. But because of the union which the
person of the Son retained with his body, his was not a
mortal 1683 corpse like others, for ‘it was not
possible for death to hold him’~6~~ and therefore
‘divine power preserved Christ’s body from
corruption’.470 Both of these statements can be said of
Christ: ‘He was cut off out of the land of the
living’,47’ and ‘My flesh will dwell in hope.
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let your Holy
One see corruption.’472 Jesus’ Resurrection
‘on the third day’ was the sign of this, also
because bodily decay was held to begin on the fourth day
after death.473 ‘Buried with
Christ...’ 628 Baptism, the original and full sign
of which is immersion, efficaciously signifies the
descent into the tomb by the Christian who dies to sin with
Christ in order to live a new life. ‘We were 537
buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as
Christ 1214 was raised from the dead by the glory of the
Father, we too might walk in newness of life.’474 629 To the benefit of every man,Jesus Christ tasted death (cf Heb 2:9). It is truly the Son of God made man who died and was buried. 630 During Christ’s period in the tomb, his
divine person continued to assume both his soul and his
body, although they were separated from each other by
death. For this reason the dead Christ’s body
‘saw no corruption’ (Acts
13:37). 631 Jesus ‘descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who escended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens.’475 he Apostles’ Creed confesses in the same article Christ’s descent |
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