While this was going on Jesus arrives at the gates of hell and with a voice of thunder and the rushing of winds, saying, Lift up your gates, O ye princes; and be ye lift up, O everlasting gates, and the King of Glory shall come in. Impious Death and her cruel officers hearing these things, were seized with fear in their several kingdoms, when they saw the clearness of the light, And Christ himself on a sudden appearing in their habitations; they cried out therefore and said, We are bound by thee; thou seemest to intend our confusion before the Lord. Who art thou, who hast no sign of corruption, but that bright appearance, which is a full proof of thy greatness, of which yet thou seemest to take no notice? Who art thou, who dost release the captatives that were held in chains by original sin, and bringest them into their former liberty? Who art thou, who dost spread so glorious and divine a light over those who were made blind by the darkness of sin?