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I answer,* 1.1 that the prophet means nothing els but that God will deliuer his church out of all dangers, howe great soeuer they seeme. Againe, this text may fitly be expounded of hell, as Saint Hierome taketh it. His wordes are these; In san∣guine passionis tuae eos qui vincti in carcere tenebantur
inferni, in quo non est vlla misericordia, tua clementia libera∣sti. Thou hast deliuered in the bloud of thy testament of thy free mercie, those that were bound in the prison of hell, where there is no mercy. And indeed the merite of Christes bloud preserued vs from hell, which otherwise was prepared for vs. This text may also be vnderstood of the captiuitie of Babylon, from whence the church was deliuered.
Hier. in 9. cap. Zach.