Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Having loosed the sorrows, not to suffer, but to free the souls of the just from thence.
As it was impossible he should be held there, either by death, or hell, his soul being always united to the divine person: and his rising again being foretold in the Psalms, in the words here cited. (Witham)
Having overcome the grievous pains of death, and all the power of hell. (Challoner)
Not that Jesus suffered any thing after his death; that was impossible. But these pains were loosed in his regard, because he was preserved from them, as the bird is preserved from the nets of the fowlers, which are broken before it is taken in them. (St. Augustine, ep. ad. Olimp. xcv.)
Moreover he loosed others of those pains. (St. Augustine, lib. xii, chap. 13. de Gen. ad lit.)
