As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Et pour toi, à cause de ton alliance scellée par le sang, Je retirerai tes captifs de la fosse où il n'y a pas d'eau.
KJV
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
at the power of Christ's Passion would be extended to those who were detained in Limbo, according to Zech. 9:11 : "Thou also, by the blood of Thy testament hast sent forth Thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein there is no water"; nor was he bound to believe explicitly, before its…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
was overthrown by the Passion that Christ should deliver the captives detained in hell, according to Zech. 9:11 : "Thou also by the blood of Thy Testament hast sent forth Thy prisoners out of the pit." And it is written ( Col. 2:15 ): "Despoiling the principalities and powers, He…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
o likewise it is applied to the dead through His descent into hell. On which account it is written ( Zech. 9:11 ) that "He sent forth prisoners out of the pit, in the blood of His testament," that is, by the power of His Passion. Reply to Objection 3: Christ's soul descended into…
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