Bible Dictionary: Gates:

◄ Gates: (Strait) the Entrance to Life ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

The Two Paths
... gathered around Him on the mountain: 'Enter ye in at the strait gate.'. I. The gates. ...
are they that mourn.' These two carry the conditions of entrance on the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the two paths.htm

The Strait Gate;
... 24) The cherubims, and the flaming sword, they made the entrance too strait for
them ... Souls, there are cherubims and a flaming sword at the gates of heaven ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the strait gate.htm

Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus.
... But now, since he has left the secular life, and has turned his back upon business ...
as if he wished them to be inserted in brazen letters on the gates of cities ...
/.../various/life and works of rufinus with jeromes apology against rufinus /

Heathen Plots
... Israel could not hope to force an entrance into the ... protected by walls and gates,
but the gates of the ... the Holy Spirit to help in every strait, to strengthen ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 55 heathen plots.htm

"He Hardened his Heart"
... morning, in a corridor leading from the entrance, he met ... sufficient wisdom to help
him in his strait, without advice ... up thy hands and open thy gates to thine ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxx he hardened his.htm

The Honoured Guest
... the King of Glory should force an entrance!" Men treat ... declining the physician, a
man entering the gates of death ... the strait unto which I was brought when I ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 61 1915/the honoured guest.htm

The First Ministry of the Baptist.
... are yielded to the King; when all gates lift up ... all everlasting doors are unfolded
for his entrance"then the ... Those who entered the strait gate, and those who ...
//christianbookshelf.org/meyer/john the baptist/v the first ministry of.htm

The Tomb of the Pharaoh
... stake upon the saving of time than in this strait"which is ... devices used in closing
tombs, the opening of these gates was simple. ... There was but one entrance. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxiii the tomb of.htm

Concerning Things Accomplished in the Synaxis.
... the Leitourgoi, some stand near the closed gates of the ... these things, beautifully
depicted upon the entrance of the ... and turned aside from the strait way leading ...
/.../dionysius/ecclesiastical hierarchy/caput iii i concerning things.htm

Our Manifesto
... Scripture has opened up, as if the gates of the ... blazing flambeaux, and an instructed
leader, your entrance is full ... a word in Scripture about a strait gate and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/our manifesto.htm