“Virgo, partus, et corpus; postque crux, mors, inferi, salus nostra est.
The Virgin, birth, and body, then the cross, death, and lower world; this is our salvation.”
–Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity 2.24 (trans. E.W. Watson and L. Pullman, NPNF 2/9:59). As cited in Samuel D. Renihan, Crux, Mors, Inferi: A Primer and Reader on the Descent of Christ (Independently Published: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021), 18.
