To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Ver. 7. To open the blind eyes.] By the preaching of the gospel. Acts 26:18 2Co 4:4-6 Rev 3:18
To bring out the prisoners from the prison.] To free poor souls from the tyranny of sin and terror of hell. This should make us say to Christ, as one did once to Augustus for a deliverance nothing so great, Effecisti, Ceesar, ut viverem et morerer ingratus, Let me do mine utmost, I must live and die in thy debt.