Did the early Church Fathers have a complete agreement on how to interpret 1 Peter 3:18-20?
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Did the early Church Fathers have a complete agreement on how to interpret 1 Peter 3:18-20 or did they also have some differences in the way they interpreted these words by Peter? I specifically mean the words highlighted in the verses below:
> For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, **in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey**, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. (1 Peter 3:18-20 ESV )
1. Who are the spirits?
2. What is the prison?
3. What exactly did Jesus proclaim to them?
Asked by brilliant
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Sep 27, 2012, 11:17 AM
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