gates of heaven
Paradise's front door
The gates of heaven are the imagined entrance to the afterlife in Christian and other religious traditions, where souls arrive for judgment before being admitted to paradise.
Saint Peter is traditionally depicted as the gatekeeper.
The phrase appears in jokes and near-death accounts: I saw the gates of heaven.
Figuratively, any threshold to something wonderful: This pizza is the gates of heaven.
- pearlyResembling mother-of-shell
- St. PeterHeaven's traditional gatekeeper
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- life after deathContinued existence posthumously
- eternal restEuphemism for death
paradise · golden · clouds · white light · angels · choir of angels · harps · entrance · threshold · judgement · final judgment · souls · eternal · white · radiant · divine · celestial · ascend
- cemeterygrave, headstone, headstones, graves, tombstone
- heavenly visionsangelic choir, archangels, ascension, celestial beings, cherubim
gates of heavengates of hell
Entrance to damnation
perdition · lake of fire · Gehenna · Hades · the underworld
gates of heavenouter darkness
Complete exclusion from presence
spiritual exile · gates of hell · jaws of death · the fall · damnation
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