the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones [...] closed in by ignorance and sin as if in a prison. This interpretation will be taken up by St. Thomas [44] . In chapter 4 of the 1 st Peter there is a verse that seems to clear 1 Pt. 3, 19: [...] Similitudo IX, 6,1, GCS 48,1, pp. 80-81; F. OEHLER (ed.), EPIPHANIUS 1,1, Panarion , 30,3, CH 2,1, pp. 244-247. ↩ IO.CAR.TH. OTTO (ed.), JUSTIN, Dialogue , 72,4, CAC 2, 1,2, Iena 18773