Note 289 — SERMON LII. PREACHED JANUARY 29, 1775.
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Ἅδης, or death [see Grotius in loc.] is here personized: and, the gates of cities, being anciently the places of counsel and judgment, as well as their chief defence and strength, hence the gates of death are the power and policy, which this person should employ to accomplish his ends: which is, in other words, to say, that those ends, or destruction, should by no means be effected.