Knowing this, Paul said: "give no opportunity to the devil." 450 "The son of man, Ezekiel," describes many "gates," and narrated something concerning each; 451 but now he narrates "to those who have ears" concerning "the outer gate of the sanctuary that faces east," about which it is written that: "this gate shall be shut." not only "because the Lord, the God of Israel, passes through the gate, it is shut," but also because "the prince sits in that gate to eat bread before the Lord by the way of Ailam," which is interpreted as the vestibule of the gate. 452 if "knowledge" has a "key," as the Lord says to the lawyers, ... then it is a "gate" shut to men ... And the meaning of this "gate" has a similar sense to what is also written in Isaiah, "a sealed book." You will find this same "book" more clearly also in the Apocalypse of John, and the things written about it, and how "the one from the tribe of Judah" opened this, and he alone. For until our Lord Jesus Christ came, the law, the prophetic word, was "shut."

τοῦτο εἰδὼς ὁ Παῦλος ἔλεγε· «μὴ δότε τόπον τῷ διαβόλῳ». 450 Πολλὰς «πύλας» διαγράφει «ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου Ἰεζεχιὴλ» καὶ περὶ ἑκάστης διηγήσατό τι· 451 νῦν δὲ διηγεῖται «τοῖς ἔχουσιν ὦτα» περὶ «τῆς πύλης τῶν ἁγίων τῆς ἐξωτέρας τῆς κατὰ ἀνατολάς», περὶ ἧς γέγραπται ὅτι· «ἡ πύλη αὕτη κεκλεισμένη ἔσται». οὐ μόνον «ὅτι Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ διέρχεται διὰ τῆς πύλης, κέκλεισται», ἀλλ' ὅτι καὶ «ὁ ἡγούμενος ἐπικάθηται ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ πύλῃ τοῦ φαγεῖν ἄρτον ἐναντίον Κυρίου κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν Αἰλὰμ», ὅπερ ἑρμηνεύεται πρόθυρον πύλης. 452 εἰ «ἡ γνῶσις» «κλεῖδα» ἔχει, ὡς ὁ Κύριος λέγει τοῖς νομικοῖς, ... ἄρα «πύλη» ἐστὶ τοῖς μὲν ἀνθρώποις κεκλεισμένη ... ὁμοῖον δὲ τῆς «πύλης» ταύτης ἔχει νοῦν καὶ τὸ γεγραμμένον ἐν τῷ Ἠσαίᾳ «βιβλίον ἐσφραγισμένον». Τὸ αὐτὸ τοῦτο «βιβλίον» λευκοτέρως εὑρήσεις καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει Ἰωάννου καὶ τὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ γεγραμμένα καὶ πῶς «ἤνοιξεν ὁ ἐκ φυλῆς Ἰούδα» τοῦτο καὶ μόνος. Μέχρις οὗ γὰρ ἦλθεν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός, «ἐκέκλειστο» ὁ νόμος, ὁ λόγος ὁ προφητικός.