Either what he has suffered he says—for he was thrown into a pit and as far as it went unto he died, but having been saved beyond hope with David: “my soul as a sparrow was delivered from the snare of the hunters” (Psalm 124:7); for it was not possible “to fall upon the earth without the Father who is in the heavens” (Matthew 10:29) according to the Savior’s voice. He says it, then, either about himself or also making the people’s passions his own. But the “gratis” (Matthew 10:29) would fittingly be said about him; for what injustice did he do them—rather, did he not benefit them?