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Between the burial and the resurrection the creeds place a descent: 'he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison' (1 Peter 3:19). No gospel narrates it. The East draws it as the Anastasis — Christ standing on the broken gates of Hades, pulling Adam and Eve up by the wrist — and that icon, not an empty tomb, is the Orthodox image of Easter. It is kept here as what it is: an article of the creed, marked as tradition, given the sabbath it belongs to and no more.
In Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell is the period of time between the Crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection. In triumphant descent, Christ brought salvation to the souls held captive there since the beginning of the world.
'He descended into hell' — the sabbath between the cross and the empty tomb.