Job 38:17 (WEB)
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Fathers and councils · 2
Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.6Discourse III
“Is it not both unseemly and irreligious to say that He was terrified at death or hades, whom the keepers of the gates of hades saw and shuddered?” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 17. LXX.; De Syn. 8, below, §56.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…clay into a living being? then afterwards, Are the gates of death opened to Thee through fear, and did the door-keepers of hell shudder at sight of Thee? thus signifying that He who through loving-kindness descended into hell, also in the beginning made man out of clay.” — editor's note: Ib. xxxviii. 17.
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