Easter Even with Jeremy Taylor: "to triumph over the gates of hell"

And Buried.

That he might suffer every thing of humane nature, he was by the care of his friends and disciples, by the leave of Pilate, taken from the Cross, and embalmed (as the manner of the Jews was to bury) and wrapped in linen, and buried in a new grave, hewn out of a Rock; and this was the last and lowest step of his humiliation.

He descended into Hell.

That is, He went down into the lower parts of the earth, or (as himself called it) into the heart of the earth; by which phrase the Scripture understands the state of separation, or of souls severed from their bodies: by this his descending to the land of darkness, where all things are forgotten, he sanctified the state of death and separation, that none of his servants might ever after fear the jaws of Death and Hell; whither he went, not to suffer torment (because he finished all that upon the Cross) but to triumph over the gates of hell, to verify his death, and the event of his sufferings, and to break the iron bars of those lower Prisons, that they may open and shut hereafter only at his command.

From 'An Exposition of the Apostles' Creed' in The Golden Grove