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Now this (to de). Paul picks out the verb anabas (second aorist active participle of anabainō, to go up), changes its form to anebē (second aorist indicative), and points the article (to) at it. Then he concludes that it implied a previous katabas (coming down).
Into the lower parts of the earth (eis ta katōtera tēs gēs). If the anabas is the Ascension of Christ, then the katabas would be the Descent (Incarnation) to earth and tēs gēs would be the genitive of apposition. What follows in Eph 4:10 argues for this view. Otherwise one must think of the death of Christ (the descent into Hades of Act 2:31).