Captivity of the contemplative soul; Christ frees captives

If we see the soul becoming subject to the devil or also to his angels, and simply to the hostile powers—the soul that by nature is contemplative and able to see the things that are and to attend—we will somehow understand the captivity and the one who took captive. But fleeing for refuge to Christ, who according to the prophet Isaiah proclaimed “release to captives,” (Isaiah 61:1) we will be freed from the captivity, even if the one who took captive reaches as far as binding. For Jesus came “to lead out those bound from bonds and those sitting in darkness from a house of prison.” (Isaiah 42:7) (Luke 4:18)