[Again he transferred the discourse to the sea—not as though the sea has a spring, but as not failing, just as one that has a spring.] Many have descended into the abyss; but they have descended so as to be prisoners, not so as to walk in it. Jesus alone walked in the abyss as a free man, where there are no footprints of those who walk [for he chose death, though not liable to it, that he might ransom those subject to death]. And he says to those in chains: 'Come forth' [and to those in darkness: 'Be uncovered'—with which the following words also agree].