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The Blessed at the gate to heaven with St. Peter (1467–1471) by Hans Memling. Pearly gates is an informal name for the gateway to Heaven according to some Christian denominations. It is inspired by the description of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:21: "The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl."
The Green Pastures is a 1936 American film depicting stories from the Bible as visualized by black characters. It starred Rex Ingram (in several roles, including "De Lawd"), Oscar Polk, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. It was based on the 1928 novel Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun by Roark Bradford and the 1930 Pulitzer Prize -winning play of the ...
The book inspired parodies and knock-offs, including a reissue of George Wood's 1858 Future Life renamed as The Gates Wide Open. [16] Mark Twain later stated that his short story "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" was a satire of The Gates Ajar. [27] In 1894 The Gates of Hell Ajar appeared, written by Connecticut author John Bolles. [28]
Lyrically, the song sees Eilish forsake heaven for hell: "My Lucifer is lonely." [19] She mocks and walks away from heaven, saying: "Pearly gates [that] look more like a picket fence" and turning towards the dark side. [19] Eilish also references Saint Peter, who is the keeper of the gates to heaven. [20] "
Happy hunting ground. Look up happy hunting ground in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The happy hunting ground is a concept of the afterlife associated with the Native Americans in the United States. [1] The phrase most likely originated with the British settlers' interpretation of the Indian description. [2]
Smoke from the soldier and the ballerina, in the shape of a heart, rises through the chimney and into the night sky. At the pearly gates of toy heaven, a toy Saint Peter awaits with the Keys of Heaven at his side and a halo above his head. The soldiers missing leg grows back, the gates open, and all three enter.
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly (fine) pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." The twelve gates of the New Jerusalem are reportedly each made of a single pearl in Revelation 21:21, that is, the Pearly Gates. "And the twelve gates were ...
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. [1]