As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Water; from limbo, (Saint Jerome and so forth Worthington. Saint Thomas Aquinas iii. p. q. 52. a. 1. Calmet.) and purgatory. See Saint Augustine de Gen. xii. 23. & ep. 99. Menochius.—Christ delivered the ancient patriarchs by virtue of his covenant, just sealed with his blood. Hebrew at present reads, “and as for thee, Sion, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners,” and so forth delivering the Hebrews out of Egypt by the paschal lamb. Chal. But this text is suspected, as S. Jerom remarks no variation.