For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?