[18] And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. These offspring were known as Nephilim, ancestors of the Anakim and the Rephaim (Num 13:30–33). “Behold, whosoever is of my church, and endureth of my church to the end, him will I establish upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them.” ( D&C 10:67, 69 .) And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,* and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. For anger, pain, bitterness to get thru, there is a channel or gate they use. “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The first part of the promise—Peter and […] There hath been a small remnant in all ages. You are correct about that. The Church has also traditionally understood Christ’s promise in Matthew 16:18 as referring to hell in the third sense—the hell of the damned, the den of demons, and the domain of the devil. And they never did. If they had, they who believed them would the more earnestly have sought to take and make him a king: and they who did not believe them would the snore vehemently have rejected and opposed such a Messiah. The gates of hell — As gates and walls were the strength of cities, and as courts of judicature were held in their gates, this phrase properly signifies the power and policy of Satan and his instruments. [24] Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. The Catholic position is based upon the fact that Peter means a stone, and the Savior's language might be rendered, "Thou art a stone and upon this rock I will build my church" (see Joh 1:42). ‘Gates of hades’ (pulai hadou) is a semitic idiom for death or proximity to death: cf. These cities and their Rephaim inhabitants are mentioned by name in Canaanite (Ugaritic) cuneiform tablets. That otherwise he will be an offence to us, an occasion of our stumbling, if not falling: 4. The first part of the promise—Peter and the rock—has been the source of much contentious commentary because it supports the Catholic teaching on the papacy. We may learn from hence, 1. (2) Every saint is a stone (see 1Pe 2:5). I promise you it will give you food to blog about for years to come. This would be anathema to Joshua, ne the Christ. σίαν, his stedfast faith and the confession he made of it, οὐ κατισχύσουσιν αὐτῆς, that the gates of Hades will not he able to resist it, καὶ πυλῶν ᾅδου κατισχύσει, κλειδούχου ἔργον τὸ εἰσάγειν, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, quos in apostolicae confessionis petra solidasti, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. The gates of Hades will not prevail against it, Theological terms in narrative-historical perspective, Synopsis of N.T. 21From 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. Crosses are so frequent, that whoever makes advantage of them, will soon be a great gainer. O death, where is thy sting?” St. Hilary of Poitiers, commenting on Matthew 16:18, put it this way: “But in this bestowing of a new name is a happy foundation of the Church, and a rock worthy of that building, which should break up the laws of hell … and all the shackles of death.”. This book has set me on a path of study like no other. Instead, all are entirely compatible with each other because the three “hells” in a fundamental sense are the same thing: a state of separation from the grace and glory of God. What was Paul thinking when he wrote “Christ… the one being over all, God, blessed for the ages” (Rom. And I’m not referring so much to the subject matter of my post here as that conclusion was a mere side note worth about a page and half in his book. The phrase has a similar meaning outside of the Psalms. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. That this advice always proceeds from the not relishing the things of God, but the things of men. But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Now we can read Christ’s words to Peter as a promise that His victory will be the Church’s victory. There is no basis for saying that the church is the aggressor. See Heiser’s book (Unseen Realm) and you’ll be provided with all the scholarly data you can state to absorb. 1) El is the same name used of YHWH throughout the OT (as well as other gods), 2) just as the Canaanite religion had a divine council, YHWH had a divine council (OT sons of God) and their parallels are striking (see Heiser’s book Unseen Realm)! “It had three gates, one in the wilderness, one in the sea, and one in Jerusalem,” according to the Jewish Encyclopedia. Jesus would build His Church atop the gates of hell—He would bury them. This excludes Peter or any human platform (1Co 3:11). Thus, by defintion since Hades was using gates to keep somthing out the Church must be the agressor. The resources there alone is worth reading! Favour thyself — The advice of the world, the flesh, and the devil, to every one of our Lord's followers. (16:16). Heiser, M. S. (2014). King James Version (KJV). What These Words Mean. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. That question may not make much sense in the context of today’s simplified and impoverished understanding of the afterlife but, in the Bible, there are several “hells.”. (pp. So, in pledging that the “gates of hell” would not prevail against the Church, Christ was promising that Satan and his minions would not defeat it. RELATED TOPIC:Vicar of Christ, Matthew 16 commentary The pagan origin of papacyRise of Catholicism. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? Satan brought hell’s gate closer to the church. But not many wise, not many noble were called. His areas of interest include Eastern Christianity, Marian and Eucharistic theology, medieval history, and the saints. Job 38:17; Ps. This pagan god was worshiped at a religious center built a short distance from the more ancient one in Dan—at the foot of Mount Hermon. You are an obstacle to me. All who are saved enters the Kingdom, not the Church. And it is certain, that as he is spoken of in Scripture, as the only foundation of the Church, so this is that which the apostles and evangelists laid in their preaching. Should we not consider all crosses, all things grievous to flesh and blood, as what they really are, as opportunities of embracing God's will at the expense of our own? 16:13; Odes 11:10; and 3 Macc. In order to settle what the Savior does mean by the "rock", we must consider Mt 16:18,19 together, and keep in mind the entire figure. There is much more going on in this text, and in the entire Bible, for that matter, that has gone completely unseen, not by scholarship, but by the Church. (J. D. Barry & R. Van Noord, Eds.) Against the three gates of gehenna stood the gates of the heavenly Jerusalem John witnessed in Revelation 21:11-13: Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal. Am I not able, if need so require, to supply you by a word? However, Pope Francis still holds non-scriptural traditions, and his role in the ecumenicism of religions, leading to a one-world faith is disconcerting. Reading hell in this way reverses how we see the gates—the gates are not to be thought of as a monstrous opening from which hell vomits forth demonic armies upon the Church. Heb. Matthew 10:38. Context, then, suggests that we are dealing with the hell of the fathers. BARJONA is the CHURCH Jesus built on Simon Peter Barjona and Peter’s descendents. At least this is how Origen read the verse: “But in heavenly things every spiritual sin is a gate of hell, to which are opposed the gates of righteousness.”. When someone in the Psalms or elsewhere prayed to be spared the gates of hell, they were primarily asking to be saved from a physical death at the hands of their enemies—not damnation or the devil. Translating the phrase without it gives it a completely different connotation: “the gates of hell will not withstand it.”. So, therefore for I believe Jesus was letting Peter know that he will build his church upon the testimony of Peter which states, thou art the Christ . stephen beale, Stephen Beale is a freelance writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. If there are mythological overtones, I’m not sure they would be at odds with the basic point which I make, which is that Jesus assures the disciples, who will have to take up their crosses to follow him, that death will not overcome the community entrusted with the gospel of the coming reign of God. In Isaiah 38:10, King Hezekiah recalls the despair that enveloped him before he recovered from an illness, “I said: ‘In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.’” It’s clear, from these passages, that gates of sheol (or hell) is a generalized reference to the underworld.

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