d. His Burial and Descent into hades.
Notes from Louis Berkhof.
We are looking at the State of Christ’s Humiliation. He laid aside His Divine Majesty and took upon Himself the form of a servant in the form of a man. He humbled Himself and was obedient unto death even the Death on a CROSS What Humiliation and suffering!!!!
As the Man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief He suffered from His Conception being treated as an Illegitimate child of the young Teenager, Mary of Nazareth. He grew up in humble circumstances The very Lord of Life was suffering amongst his own people the Jews who Rejected Him from go to woe.
In His death He lay down His life for us. He came to die and to seek and to save those who were lost. This was His earthly mission. By suffering on a Roman Cross on Mount Calvary, He died an accursed death bearing the curse of Deut 21:23 for us.
His Burial and Descent into hades. |
| The Garden Tomb |
It might seem that the sufferings on the cross were the last things He suffered for he cried out, “It is Finished”. However His burial was part of His Humiliation of which he the Son of God was also conscious. Man's returning to the dust is a punishment for sin Gen 3:19 but God would not allow His Holy One see Corruption or decay.
Psa 16:10 For You will not leave My soul in hell; You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
Adam Clark :Thine Holy One - This is in the plural number, חסידיך chasideycha, thy Holy Ones; but none of the versions translate it in the plural; and as it is in the singular number, חסידך chasidecha, in several ancient editions, among which is the Complutensian Polyglot, and no less than two hundred and sixty-four of Kennicott’s and De Rossi’s MSS., and in the quotation by St. Peter, in Act_2:27; Act_13:35, we may take it for granted that the present reading is a corruption; or that חסידיך is an emphatic singular.
As to leaving the soul In hell, it can only mean permitting the life of the Messiah to continue under the power of death; for שאול sheol signifies a pit, a ditch, the grave, or state of the dead. See the notes on the parallel places, Act_2:25 (note), etc.
See corruption - All human beings see corruption, because born in sin, and liable to the curse. The human body of Jesus Christ, as being without sin, saw no corruption.
Act 2:27 because You will not leave My soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your holy One to see corruption.
Act 2:28 You revealed to Me the ways of life. You will fill Me with joy with Your countenance."
Act 2:29 Men, brothers, it is permitted to say to you with plainness as to the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Act 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit upon his throne,
Act 2:31 seeing this beforehand, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor would His flesh see corruption,
Act 13:34 And that He raised Him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He spoke in this way: "I will give you the holy promises of David."
Act 13:35 Therefore he also says in another psalm, "You shall not allow Your Holy One to see corruption."
The Descent into hades.[Hell]
Acts 2:27 : You will not leave My soul in Hades,
Comment on Act_2:27 Pulpit Commentary
Hades for hell, A.V.; give thy Holy One for suffer thine Holy One, A.V., surely not so good a rendering. Hades. The "hell" of the A.V. is the exact English representative of ᾅδης. The article in the Creed, "He descended into hell," is based upon this text especially, the other two alleged in support of it (Eph_4:9; 1Pe_3:18, 1Pe_3:19) being less conclusive (see Pearson on the Creed, art. 5.). It is a pity to lose the word "hell" in its true meaning. Corruption; Greek διαφθρόραν, Hebrew תחַשַׁ. The Hebrew word always means a pit (from חַוּשׁ); but the LXX. here render it διαφθορά, as if from תחַשָׁ (in Pihel, to destroy, waste; in Hophal and Niphal, to be corrupted, spoilt, to rot). In the A.V. it is rendered corruption, here and in Job_17:14, where it answers to "the worms," in the parallel clause. It is very probable that the LXX. are right. Nothing is more common than for Hebrew verbs to take the meaning of verbs with similar radicals. Holy One. So the LXX.
Eph 4:9 (Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
| Christ's Burial |
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;
1Pe 3:19 in which also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
1Pe 3:20 to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water);
John Calvin expressed his concern that many Christians "have never earnestly considered what it is or means that we have been redeemed from God's judgment. Yet this is our wisdom: duly to feel how much our salvation cost the Son of God." Calvin's conclusion is that "Christ's descent into Hell was necessary for Christians' atonement, because Christ did in fact endure the penalty for the sins of the redeemed."[15]
Application.
Rom 6:3 Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection;
Notes
Baptized into His Death. v.3
Were baptized into Christ (ebaptisthēmen eis Christon). First aorist passive indicative of baptizō. Better, “were baptized unto Christ or in Christ.” The translation “into” makes Paul say that the union with Christ was brought to pass by means of baptism, which is not his idea, for Paul was not a sacramentarian. Eis is at bottom the same word as en. Baptism is the public proclamation of one’s inward spiritual relation to Christ attained before the baptism. See note on Gal_3:27 where it is like putting on an outward garment or uniform.
Into his death (eis ton thanaton autou). So here “unto his death,” “in relation to his death,” which relation Paul proceeds to explain by the symbolism of the ordinance.RWP.
Rom 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death,
We are buried (Revision) through baptism into death. The argument is that a burial implies death. Baptism is a burial, therefore its subject has died. As Christ died through sin, we die to sin; as the Crucified Christ was buried, we who have died to sin through the gospel are buried with him. As death and burial separate from the natural life, so death to sin and burial into Christ should completely sever our relation to sin. People’s New Testament
| Baptism Is a Burial |
we were buried together with Him
G4916 συνθάπτω sunthaptō Strong’s Dictionary
soon-thap'-to
From G4862 and G2290; to enter in company with, that is, (figuratively) to assimilate spiritually (to Christ by a sepulture as to sin): - bury with.
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