19 Peter now inserts into the normal credal order an expansion; namely, it was in this latter mode of existence, that of the spirit, that Christ “went and preached to the spirits in prison.” The minute one writes this Petrine phrase, he is aware that this passage is exceedingly difficult. First, “in the spiritual mode of existence” is represented in Greek by an adverbial relative, en hōi. One would expect a relative to refer back to the nearest noun agreeing with it, and thus to translate it “in