26. Go thy way, therefore, to my
brethren—that is, to those everlasting doors, which, as soon as
they see Jesus, are lifted up. Peter is an “everlasting
door,” against whom the gates of hell shall not prevail. S. Matt. xvi. 18. John and James, the sons of
thunder, to wit, S. Mark iii. 17. are
“everlasting doom.” Everlasting are the doors of the
Church, where the prophet, desirous to proclaim the praises of Christ,
says: “That I may tell all thy praises in the gates of the
daughter of Sion.” Ps. ix. 14.