Open to me the gates - Throw open the doors of the temple, that I may enter and perform my vows unto the Lord.

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Isaiah 26:2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life...

I will go

Psalm 9:13,14 Have mercy on me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death...

Psalm 66:13-15 I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay you my vows...

Psalm 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful to him, and bless his name.

Psalm 116:18,19 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people...

Isaiah 38:20,22 The LORD was ready to save me...

The Entry into Jerusalem.
THE fame of Christ's acts had been diffused among the thousands of Jews [652] that had gathered from all quarters for the Passover. The resurrection of Lazarus, in particular, had created a great sensation. As soon as the Sabbath law allowed, [653] they flocked in crowds to Bethany to see Jesus, and especially to convince themselves of the resurrection of Lazarus by ocular evidence and inquiry on the spot. Perhaps on Sunday morning, too, before Christ went to Jerusalem, many had gone out. [654] The …
Augustus Neander—The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion

Letter xx. To Pope Damasus.
Jerome's reply to the foregoing. Exposing the error of Hilary of Poitiers, who supposed the expression to signify "redemption of the house of David," he goes on to show that in the gospels it is a quotation from Psa. cxviii. 25 and that its true meaning is "save now" (so A.V.). "Let us," he writes, "leave the streamlets of conjecture and return to the fountain-head. It is from the Hebrew writings that the truth is to be drawn." Written at Rome a.d. 383. …
St. Jerome—The Principal Works of St. Jerome

Of the Conformity of Our Will to that Will of God's which is Signified to us by his Commandments.
The desire which God has to make us observe his commandments is extreme, as the whole Scripture witnesses. And how could he better express it, than by the great rewards which he proposes to the observers of his law, and the awful punishments with which he threatens those who shall violate the same! This made David cry out: O Lord, thou hast commanded thy Commandments to be kept most diligently. [360] Now the love of complacency, beholding this divine desire, wills to please God by observing it; the …
St. Francis de Sales—Treatise on the Love of God