Psalm 24:7 (WEB)
Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Catechism · 1
“Acclaimed as son of David, as the one who brings salvation (Hosanna means "Save!" or "Give salvation!"), the "King of glory" enters his City "riding on an ass".” — Catechism footnote: Ps 24:7-10; Zech 9:9.
Fathers and councils · 21
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…again because the Lord sustained Him, and who enjoined the principalities of heaven to set open the everlasting doors, that the King of glory might go in, proclaimed beforehand His resurrection from the dead through the Father’s power, and His reception into heaven.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…has also opened for us, the forerunners saying, ‘Lift up your gates, O ye rulers, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.’” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
Read the whole comment“For thus being lifted up He cleared the air of the malignity both of the devil and of demons of all kinds, as He says: “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven;” and made a new opening of the way up into heaven as He says once more: “Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7, [LXX.]
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John Damascene
“Others are appropriate to the double nature, as, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and My God and your God, and The King of Glory shall come in, and He sat down on the right hand of the majesty on High.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…their Lord], concerning which the Psalmist said, Lift up your doors, O ye Princes, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7. The first clause is mistranslated by the LXX. from whom Cyril quotes.
Read the whole comment“…is distinctly written in the Psalms, God is gone up with a shout; remember that the divine powers also said to one another, Lift up your gates, ye Princes, and the rest; remember also the Psalm which says, He ascended on high, He led captivity captive; remember the Prophet who said, Who buildeth His ascension…” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7: Lift up, O gates, your heads. The order of the Hebrew words misled the Greek Translators.
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Tertullian
“The sun ceded to us the day of our redemption; hell re-transferred the right it had in us, and our covenant is in heaven; the everlasting gates were lifted up, that the King of Glory, the Lord of might, might enter in, after having redeemed man from earth, nay, from hell, that he might attain to heaven.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
Read the whole comment“If you have ever read in David, “Lift up your gates, ye princes, and let the everlasting gates be lifted up; and the King of glory shall enter in;” if you have also heard from Amos, “Who buildeth up to the heavens his way of ascent, and is such as to pour forth his abundance (of waters) over the earth;”…” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
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Justin Martyr
“…of you venture to expound the prophecy which runs, ‘Lift up your gates, ye rulers; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, that the King of glory may enter,’ as if it referred likewise to Hezekiah, and others of you [expound it] of Solomon; but neither to the latter nor to the former, nor, in short, to any of your…” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
Read the whole comment“…and again, when it is thus said by David: ‘Lift up your gates, ye rulers; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting gates; and the King of glory shall enter;’ and again, when He says: ‘The Lord says to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.’” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
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Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §10On the Psalms
“Therefore to these powers it is said by the angels, who are the couriers of the Saviour and Lord: “Lift up your gates, ye princes; and be lifted up, ye everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
Read the whole comment “And in like manner also, when the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove, and the Father’s voice spread everywhere, it was meet that “the gates of heaven should be lifted up.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7.
Read the whole comment“In regard, however, of his ascension, that is his regeneration, that he may become spiritual, not carnal, the Scripture, he says, speaks (thus): “Open the gates, ye who are your rulers; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in,” that is a wonder of wonders.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7–9.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And therefore [the angels] descrying the approach of the Lord of all, first and only Vanquisher of Death, bade their princes that the gates should be lifted up, saying in adoration, “Lift up the gates, such as are princes amongst you, and be ye lifted up, O everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7. St. Ambrose follows the LXX.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Take away your gates, ye princes” (ver. 7).” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
““I am escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxxiv. 7.
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John Cassian
“Saying: “Lift up your heads, and the King of glory shall come in.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxiii. (xxiv.) 7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Bid the gates be lifted up, or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7, 10.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“When, lo! on Christ’s baptism they were again opened; after He had overcome by the Cross the great tyrant death, henceforward the heaven, never more to be closed, needed not gates, so that the Angels say not, ‘Open ye gates,’ for they were open, but “take away the gates.” [Ps 24:7]” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“The gates lifted up their heads and the everlasting gates were lifted up.” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7, 9.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. 7–10.
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 85.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 3:16 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.1.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 127.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.