Rufinus of Aquileia: source notes

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F10X S1: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed 18

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2711.htm (public-domain English translation)
• Text: “But it should be known that the clause, He descended into Hell, is not added in the Creed of the Roman Church, neither is it in that of the Oriental Churches.”
• Context: Rufinus’s commentary on the creed of Aquileia (c. 400).
• Bears on: F10.4
• Status: verified (English)

F10X S2: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed 28

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2711.htm (public-domain English translation)
• Text: “Are You He that shall come (into hell, without doubt), or do we look for another? Whence also Peter says that Christ being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the Spirit which dwells in Him, descended to the spirits who were shut up in prison, who in the days of Noah believed not, to preach unto them; where also what He did in hell is declared.”
• Context: Rufinus gathers the Scripture texts on the descent.
• Bears on: F10.4
• Status: verified (English)

F10X S3: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed 28

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2711.htm (public-domain English translation)
• Text: “For in that He descended into hell, He was as a man: but He was free among the dead, because He could not be detained by death.”
• Context: On Psalm 88:5 (‘free among the dead’).
• Bears on: F10.4
• Status: verified (English)