Ezekiel — Chapter 32
A lamentation over Pharaoh and Egypt, whose dead are among the uncircumcised in the pit (Sheol). Lapide uses this chapter for an extended treatment of the afterlife state — the pit (lacus) or Sheol in the Old Testament, its relationship to the New Testament hell and purgatory. He follows Thomas Aquinas and Augustine in distinguishing the various 'regions' of Sheol.
Verse 17
Egypt's descent to Sheol along with Assyria, Elam, Meshech-Tubal, Edom, and the Sidonians: Lapide reads the assembly of the dead as a powerful image of the equality of all before death and divine judgment, a lesson against every form of worldly pride.