Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible all around.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Place; though people may shoot at him, they will make no impression, chap. xl. 20, 26. (Haydock)
If God send his thunderbolts at him, the monster must however perish. (Calmet)
Symmachus, "His flesh being cast for him, as in the foundry, (molten) is immoveable. "(Haydock)
Yet God destroyeth him whom man cannot overcome. (Worthington)
46. The ‘gates of his face’ are wicked teachers, who are called the gates of his face for this reason, because, every one enters through them, in order that this Leviathan may be seen, as it were, in the princedom of his power. For as sacred Scripture is wont to call holy men gates of Sion, [Ps. 87, 2] (for Sion is by interpretation, ‘watching,’ and we deservedly call holy preachers the gates of Sion, because by their life and doctrine we enter the secrets of heavenly contemplation,) so also are the teachers of errors signified by the gates of this Leviathan; for when their false preaching is received, the way of perdition is opened to their wretched hearers. But these gates are generally opened before the eyes of men, in order to admit, but yet are closed in order to seize; because in appearance they present right things, but in their doings they persuade evil things. They are closed therefore in order to seize, because they are kept by outward hypocrisy from being discerned within. B...
