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The Church
By Barry Chant
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Jesus said: "I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Mt 16:18).
That saying comes strangely to our ears - we do not usually think of gates as prevailing - but to the people of Bible days it was pregnant with meaning. In fact, Jesus' words must have had a stunning impact on his hearers.
The phase "the gates of hell" was a common idiom in the Greek world. It was used to convey the idea of the strongest possible force. Today we might say, "mighty as an atom bo...