She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit.

“Just. Joseph. (Challoner) — Sinners. His brethren, &c. Septuagint, “from sin” of adultery. (Menochius) — Pit. Or prison, to which he was confined at the instigation of Potiphar’s wife, always preserving his virtue. (Calmet) — He had also been let down into an old pit by his brethren. (Haydock)”

“She the just man that was sold, etc. Mystically, the Wisdom of God delivered the martyrs from persecutions, and exalted them in the heavenly kingdom. Whence with Christ they are to come as judges of their enemies.”