r the gospel preached in paradise; in the acceptance or rejection
of the word of life he would be an agent unto himself. The requirement
of obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel as an essential to
salvation was not waived, suspended, or superseded in his case.

2. The Scripture Relating to Christ Among the Spirits in Prison.--The
revised version of 1 Peter 3:18-20 reads: "Because Christ also suffered
for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us
to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit; in
which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which
aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is eight
souls were saved through water." This is regarded by scholars as a
closer approach to accuracy in translation than the common version.
Certain important differences between the two versions will appear to
the studious reader. The common version of the latter part of verse 18
and the whole of verse 19 reads: "being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison." The revised text expresses the true thought that
Christ was quickened, that is to say, was active, in His own spirit
state, although His body was inert and in reality dead at the time; and
that _in_ that disembodied state He went and preached to the disobedient
spirits. The later reading fixes the time of our Lord's ministry among
the departed as the interval between His death and resurrection.

FOOTNOTES:

[1339] Chapters 2 and 3 herein.

[1340] Page 659.

[1341] Note 1, end of chapter.

[1342] Note the distinction made by Paul 2 Cor. 12:2-4.

[1343] B. of M., Alma 40:11-14.

[1344] 1 Peter 3:18-20; see Note 2, end of chapter.

[1345] 1 Peter 4:5, 6. See Note 2, end of chapter.

[1346] John 5:25-29; see also page 210 herein.

[1347] Isa. 24:21, 22.

[1348] Isa. 42:5-7.

[1349] Psalm 16:9-11.

[1350] See page 124 herein; also "The Articles of Faith," vii:18-33; and
"The House of the Lord," pages 63-93.

[1351] 1 Cor. 15:29; see also "House of the Lord," p. 92.

[1352] Acts 10:42; 2 Tim. 4:1; 1 Peter 4:5.

[1353] Rom. 14:9.

[1354] Luke 20:36, 38; "The Articles of Faith," vii:18.

CHAPTER 37.

THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION.

CHRIST IS RISEN.

Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, had passed, and the ni