and applied to our Lord’s departure from the body in a manner which alone might have been sufficient to justify the use of the words in the Creed. If we ask ourselves what meaning was attached to such words by the primitive Church of Jerusalem, it is natural to seek an answer in the interpretation of the corresponding Hebrew phrase. “Sheol,” writes Professor Schultz, “is not the grave itself, for even when there is no grave, Sheol is thought of as the abode of the departed. It is the dwelling-place