Did he go to Hades to persuade the dead?
After this he says to us: “Surely you will not say of him that, having failed to persuade those who were here, he set out for Hades to persuade those who were there.” Whether he likes it or not, we do say this: that while he was in the body he persuaded not a few, but so many that he was plotted against because of the great number of those persuaded; and that when he had become a soul bare of the body, he spoke with souls bare of their bodies, turning to himself those of them also who were willing, or those whom he saw to be better suited, for reasons he himself knew (compare 1 Peter 3:19).
Greek
Μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα λέγει πρὸς ἡμᾶς ὅτι οὐ δή που φήσετε περὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι μὴ πείσας τοὺς ὧδε ὄντας ἐστέλλετο εἰς ᾅδου πείσων τοὺς ἐκεῖ. κἂν μὴ βούληται οὖν, τοῦτό φαμεν, ὅτι καὶ ἐν σώματι ὢν οὐκ ὀλίγους ἔπεισεν ἀλλὰ τοσούτους. ὡς διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πειθομένων ἐπιβουλευθῆναι αὐτὸν, καὶ γυμνὴ σώματος γενόμενος ψυχὴ ταῖς γυμναῖς σωμάτων ὡμίλει ψυχαῖς, ἐπιστρέφων κἀκείνων τὰς βουλομένας πρὸς αὐτὸν ἢ ἃς ἑώρα δι᾿ οὓς ᾔδει αὐτὸς λόγους ἐπιτηδειοτέρας.