The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (Volume 37) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1908. Excerpt: ... and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it And 119 will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he his disciples that they *> should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ 21--23. The Passion is foretold. From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his - disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter - from a Teutonic root and may have been connected with heathen usages. See Bib. Diet. Art. Church. the gates of hcll] Lit "the gates of Hades." The Greek Hades is the same as the Hebrew Sheol, the abode of departed spirits, in which were two divisions Gehenna and Paradise. "The gates of Hades" are generally interpreted to mean the power of the unseen world, especially the power of death: cp. Rev. i. 18, "the keys of hell (Hades) and of death." shall not prevail against it] The gates of Hades prevail over all things human, but the Church shall never die. 19. the keys of the kingdom of heaven This expression was not altogether new. To a Jew it would convey a definite meaning. He would think of the symbolic key given to a Scribe when admitted to his office, with which he was to open the treasury of the divine oracles. Peter was to be a Scribe in the kingdom of heaven. He has received authority to teach the truths of the kingdom. whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven] To bind (cp. ch. xxiii. 4) is to impose an obligation as binding; to loose is to declare a precept not binding. Such expressions as this were common: "The school of Shammai binds it, the school of...