reported, "We found the prison safely locked and the keepers on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one on the inside."

For God has locked up all mankind in the prison of disobedience so as to have mercy on them all.

But before this faith came, we were kept locked up under the law, in preparation for the faith which was to be unveiled.

And suppose he answers from inside, 'Stop bothering me; the door is now locked, and my children are packed about me in bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'