ould He be qualified to become man's Saviour, for only a perfect
man can be a full and complete Redeemer. Man's spirit, his most noble
element, stands in need of redemption as well as his body, for all its
faculties are corrupted by sin.

In affirming that Jesus descended into hell, this clause of the Creed
declares that He possessed the complete nature of humanity; that His
true body died, and that His reasonable soul departed to Hades.

SECTION 2.--THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD[128]

On the morning of the first day of the week, thenceforth hallowed as the
Lord's Day--the Christian Sabbath--the soul of Jesus left Hades, and
once more and for ever entered the body, and formed with it the
perfected humanity of the "Word made flesh." The resurrection of Jesus
is a well-attested fact of history. The close-sealed, sentinelled
sepulchre, the broken seal, the stone rolled away, the trembling guard,
the empty tomb, and the many appearances of Jesus to the women, the
disciples, the brethren, and last of all to Saul of Tarsus, prove that
He had risen.[129]

The Resurrection was a fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy. Peter thus
interprets Psalm xvi. 10, "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption," affirming
that David in that Psalm speaks of the Resurrection of Christ.[130]
Jesus Himself often foretold, both figuratively and directly, His own
resurrection, as when He spoke of the coming destruction of the Temple,
and connected it with the death and resurrection of His body;[131] or
when He told the disciples that in a little while they should not see
Him, and again in a little while they should see Him.[132] The place
which this doctrine holds in the Christian faith is shown by the
numerous references to it in the Epistles.

The Apostles had not grasped the statements of Christ in such a way as
to lead them to look with confidence for His return, or to gather hope
of His resurrection. On the contrary, they did not expect His
resurrection, and, when they heard of it, they could not believe it to
be real.[133] Yet, convinced by the evidence of their own senses, they
came to hold it fast as the fact that crowned all their hopes in life
and death. Although the preaching of "Jesus and the Resurrection"
exposed them to persecution and martyrdom, they nevertheless continued
to proclaim a risen Lord. "If Christ is not risen," says Paul, "then is
our preaching