1Then Hades, receiving Prince Satan, said to him, with vehement revilings: O prince of perdition, and leader of extermination, Beelzebub, derision of angels, to be spit upon by the just, why did you wish to do this? Did you wish to crucify the King of glory, in whose death you promised us so great spoils? Like a fool, you did not know what you were doing. For, behold, that Jesus by the splendour of His divinity is putting to flight all the darkness of death, and He has broken into the strong lowest depths of our dungeons, and has brought out the captives, and released those who were bound. And all who used to groan under our torments insult us, and by their prayers our dominions are taken by storm, and our realms conquered, and no race of men has now any respect for us. Moreover, also, we are grievously threatened by the dead, who have never been haughty to us, and who have not at any time been joyful as captives. O Prince Satan, father of all impious wretches and renegades, why did you wish to do this? Of those who from the beginning, even until now, have despaired of salvation and life, no bellowing after the usual fashion is now heard here; and no groaning of theirs resounds, nor in any of their faces is a trace of tears found. O Prince Satan, possessor of the keys of the lower regions, all your riches which you had acquired by the tree of transgression and the loss of paradise, you have now lost by the tree of the cross, and all your joy has perished. When you hung up that Christ Jesus the King of glory, you were acting against yourself and against me. Henceforth you shall know what eternal torments and infinite punishments you are to endure in my everlasting keeping. O Prince Satan, author of death, and source of all pride, you ought first to have inquired into the bad cause of that Jesus. Him in whom you perceived no fault, why, without reason, did you dare unjustly to crucify? And why have you brought to our regions one innocent and just, and lost the guilty, the impious, and the unjust of the whole world?
2And when Hades had thus spoken to Prince Satan, then the King of glory said to Hades: Satan the prince will be in your power for ever, in place of Adam and his sons, my just ones.