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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
12 Assyrian Identity
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
Keywords
netherworld
Period
6th century CE
Byzantine Empire
Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars
Text
Jacob of Serugh, Homily on Matthew 16.17ff.: The “bars” are none other than Death and Satan who have ravaged the earth; the high gates inside them have confined Adam, and there the whole captivity lies in darkness. … They will not confine the bride (= the church) or overcome her, for life has delivered her and death no longer has any hold over her. … The bridegroom has given the bride as a wedding gift the ability to overcome Death and Satan. … (Christ:) “I will break the gates of death that confine him (= Adam), and I will shatter the high bars of the daughter of darkness. … When I die the bars of Sheol will not hold me in.”
