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Acts 2:24 (WEB)
whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

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§633Paragraph 1 · Christ Descended into HellRead at vatican.va
“Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Phil 2:10; Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:6; 88:11-13.

§648Paragraph 2 · On the Third Day He Rose from the DeadRead at vatican.va
“Jesus is conclusively revealed as "Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his Resurrection from the dead".” — Catechism footnote: Rom I 3-4; cf. Acts 2:24.

Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius II.8Book II
“…from the dead, He becomes the “first-fruits of them that slept” and the “first-born from the dead,” in that He first by His own act loosed the pains of death, so that His new birth from the dead was made a way for us also, since the pains of death, wherein we were held, were loosed by the resurrection of the Lord.” — editor's note: Cf. Acts ii. 24. See note 2, p. 104, supra.
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Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius IV.3Book IV
“He is the first-born from the dead, Who first by Himself loosed the pains of death, that He might also make that birth of the resurrection a way for all men.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 24.
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Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies III.12Book III
“…was glad; moreover also, my flesh shall rest in hope: because Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou give Thy Holy One to see corruption.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 22–27.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians I.10Discourse I
“Accordingly what is here said, ‘Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him,’ answers to Peter’s words in the Acts, ‘Whom God raised up, having loosed the bonds of death, because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.’” — editor's note: Acts ii. 24.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation of the Word §26
“And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.” — editor's note: Cf. Acts ii. 24
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Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) §4
“Peter, the Apostle, who knows better than we, interprets and say, ‘and when they had fulfilled all that was written of Him they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a sepulchre, but God raised Him from the dead.’” — editor's note: The quotation seems to be a confusion between Acts ii. 24, and Acts xiii. 29. Sic in Athan. Ed. Migne. II. 1030.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith III.4Book III
“He was not made prisoner by the powers of darkness, it is He Who exerted power amongst them.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 19; Acts ii. 24.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 8
“For no sooner was she arrived at Bethlehem than she brought her pangs to an end,that thou mayest thence also learn the whole dispensation, and that these things were not done at random, or by chance, but that they all were in course of accomplishment, according to some Divine foreknowledge, and prophetic order.” — editor's note: ὠδνα λυσεν. Comp. Acts. ii. 24.
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Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35Part III
“…counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have by the hands of wicked men crucified and slain; whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of hell (Acts ii. 22–24); in order, to wit, that having been thrown down by a recognition of their cruelty, they might hear the building up of holy preaching by so much…” — the author cites it
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion III.5Book III
“…then, Christ was announced by the Creator, “who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,” as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,—it was demonstrated that they, by their being…” — editor's note: A supposed quotation of Amos iv. 13. See Oehler’s marginal reference. If so, the reference to Joel is either a slip of Tertullian or a corruption of his text;…
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Hippolytus of Rome, The Refutation of All Heresies V.14Book V
“But he says it is not sufficient that the Perfect Man, the Word, has entered into the womb of a virgin, and loosed the pangs which were in that darkness.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 24.
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