Psalm 23:7
Douay-Rheims
Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
Athanasius of Alexandria
It was not the Word himself that needed an opening of the gates, being Lord of all; nor were any of his works closed to their maker; but we it was that needed it, whom he carried up by his own body. For as he offered it to death on behalf of all, so by it he once more made ready the way up into the heavens.
Source details
A.D. 373 · on Ps 24:7 (On the Incarnation of the Word 25)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.