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In Prison or blind?

Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,        because the LORD has anointed me        to preach good news to the poor.        He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,        to proclaim freedom for the captives        and release from darkness for the prisoners , [ a ] Footnotes: Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind   What caught my eye on this was the footnote.  The passage is " release from darkness for the prisoners " but the footnote says it could also be translated as " release from darkness for the blind ".  Doesn't that make a difference?  I'm thinking the spiritual blind and possibly some of the physically blind since Jesus did  cause the blind to see. But wait.... Isn't there a huge difference between people who are in prison and those who are blind? I think of priso...