[41b] Rev. xiv. 13.
[43] Phil i. 21.
[44] 1 Peter iii. 18.
[47] Isaiah i. 2.
[63] See p. 100 infra.
[72] In the A.V. the words in v. 18 are printed differently from the R.V. In the former the reading is “quickened by the Spirit,” as though S. Peter meant to assert, that it was by the special operation of God the Holy Ghost that our Lord, after He died upon the Cross, still lived. But this rendering entirely destroys the evident antithesis which is marked in the contrast between “put to death” and “quickened,” and between “flesh” and “spirit.” That antithesis limits the effect of Christ’s death to His human Body, while His human Spirit was still alive.
[73] 2 Peter ii. 5.
[74] The same word is used constantly in the N.T. for the special proclamation of the Gospel.
[75] 1 Peter iv. 6.
[84] Thus the Catechism of the Council of Trent states that “There is a Purgatorial Fire where the souls of the righteous being tormented are purified.”