>>7960487No necessarily true. Christ descended into Hades and preached the Gospel to everyone there. You do not know who accepted it, you show forward the sin of pride to pass judgement on them, and it seems sensible that those who studied the order of the world for meaning (some who even predicted the coming of Christ - e.g., delphic oracles & Plato's predicted "righteous man" who would be crucified - book 2 of the Republic) would more readily accept it, since they sought Truth and Wisdom and Christ is both.
For instance, 'among the writings ascribed to the seventh-century abbot of Sinai, Anastasios, there is a story which relates that it was the custom of a certain learned Christian to curse Plato daily, until eventually Plato himself appeared to him and said, "Man, stop cursing me; for you are merely harming yourself. I do not deny that I was a sinner, but, when Christ descended into hell, no one believed in Him sooner than I did."'
