A dictionary of the . ofeither wood, iron, or brass. Acts 12 also were protected in the sameway, and sometimes a door or passagewas made in the gate, so as to save thenecessity of opening the whole gateevery time a single person would 12 : 13. In many Asiatic cities325 GAT GAZ there were broad streets covered overwholly or in part, and appropriated tomerchants or tradesmen in particularbranches of business, and there werealso open squares in which the boothsand stalls of venders were were frequently at the gates ofthe city, which were, of course, place
A dictionary of the . ofeither wood, iron, or brass. Acts 12 also were protected in the sameway, and sometimes a door or passagewas made in the gate, so as to save thenecessity of opening the whole gateevery time a single person would 12 : 13. In many Asiatic cities325 GAT GAZ there were broad streets covered overwholly or in part, and appropriated tomerchants or tradesmen in particularbranches of business, and there werealso open squares in which the boothsand stalls of venders were were frequently at the gates ofthe city, which were, of course, placesof the greatest concourse. 2 Sam. 15 : 2 ;2 Kgs. 7:1; Neh. 8:1; Job 29 : 7 ;Prov. 22 : 22 ; 31 : 23. The gates wereoften also the places of judicial proceed-ings, Deut. 17 : 5 ; 25 : 7 ; Am. 5: 10, 12,15—the mode of conducting which maybe learned from Ruth 4 : 1-12—and ofgeneral resort, Gen. 19 :1, and, of course,frequented by idlers and loungers. : 12. In Arabia the gate of the cityis still the place of Gate of Damascus. As the possession of the gates of thecity was a possession of the city itself,the word is sometimes used to signifypower. Gen. 22 : 17 ; Isa. 24 : 12. Hencethe expression of our Lord that thegates of heir(Hades) shall never prevailagainst his Church. Matt. 16 : 18. Thegovernment of the sultan is called theSublime Porte. Gates, like doors, were often orna-mented, 1 Kgs. 6 : 34 : 2 Kgs. 18 : 16, etc. ;the Beautiful Gate, Acts 3 : 2, required 20men to close it. The figurative expres-sion to exalt the gate, Prov. 17 :19—i. have the opening of the gateway lofty—implies ostentation, which is likely toprovoke envy, and therefore leads oftento destruction.—At/re. GATH (wine-press), one of the fivecities of the Philistines, Josh. 13 :3 ;1 Sam. 6 : 17; Am. 6:2; Mic. 1:10; astronghold of the Anakim, Josh. 11 :22 ; home of Goliath, 1 Sam. 17: 4 ; placewhither the ark was carried, 1 Sam. 5 :8 ; where David sought refuge, 21 : 10-326 15; was
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