Bible Dictionary: Gates: Symbolical

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Revelation 21:12,13,21,25
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
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We Would Say, Moreover, that Death Ceases in the World when the ...
... of righteousness," which is an equivalent expression to "the gates of virtue ... by means
of the tree;" not understanding, I think, the symbolical expression, that ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxxvi we would say.htm

The God who Dwells with Men
... us not only of the God that dwelt in Zion in outward and symbolical form, by ... once
again this King of Glory shall stand before the everlasting gates and summon ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/the god who dwells with.htm

Footnotes
... import, we have in this case one that is entirely symbolical.""NEANDER ... Great King
raised from her desolation, "her walls salvation, and her gates praise." The ...
//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/memories of bethany/footnotes.htm

The Annunciation of St. John the Baptist
... it resorted to: twice before, and twice after the Temple-gates were opened ... And, greater
than either of these representatives of the symbolical import of Nazarism ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter iii the annunciation of.htm

Preface to the First Edition.
... Her gates are pearls ... prepared for God's children, we must conclude that the magnificent
language describing the heavenly Jerusalem is only symbolical; that the ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/preface to the first edition.htm

The Christian Ministry, and Its Relation to the Christian ...
... or the power of the keys, the power to open and shut the gates of the ... solemnly set
apart and inducted into their ministerial functions by the symbolical act of ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 59 the christian ministry.htm

Of the Prodigal Son.
... and not hearing; [790] holding in hatred him who reproveth in the gates, [791] and ...
and put together those things of which the parables seem (to be symbolical). ...
/.../tertullian/on modesty/chapter viii of the prodigal son.htm

The Middle Ages.
... These were built so as to be almost as symbolical as the Temple had been. ... of their
church, and constant services were celebrated, that so the gates might ever ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xxxi the middle ages.htm

The Servant-Lord
... In the symbolical incident in John's Gospel, to which I have already referred, He
laid ... that there may be no unpreparedness or delay in flinging open the gates. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the servant-lord.htm

Letter viii. To Demophilus, Therapeutes. About Minding Ones Own ...
... But the gates of the sanctuary are bounded by the appointed Therapeutae, within ... those
who always stand around the Divine Altar, for a symbolical purpose, see ...
/.../letters of dionysius the areopagite/letter viii to demophilus therapeutes.htm