Mat 7:13 | RWP | e4.org | By the narrow gate ( δια της στενης πυλης ). The Authorized Version "at the strait gate" misled those who did not distinguish between "strait" and "straight." The figure of the Two Ways had a wide circulation in Jewish and Christian writings (cf. ; ; ). See the Didache i-vi; Barnabas xviii-xx. "The narrow gate" is repeated in verse and straitened the way ( τεθλιμμενη η οδος ) added. The way is "compressed," narrowed as in a defile between high rocks, a tight place like στενοχωρια in . "The way that leads to life involves straits and afflictions" (McNeile). Vincent quotes the Pinax or Tablet of Cebes, a contemporary of Socrates: "Seest thou not, then, a little door, and a way before the door, which is not much crowded, but very few travel it? This is the way that leadeth unto true culture." "The broad way" ( ευρυχωρος ) is in every city, town, village, with the glaring white lights that lure to destruction.

‏ Matthew 7:13

By the narrow gate ( δια της στενης πυλης ). The Authorized Version "at the strait gate" misled those who did not distinguish between "strait" and "straight." The figure of the Two Ways had a wide circulation in Jewish and Christian writings (cf. De 30:19; Jer 21:8; Ps 1). See the Didache i-vi; Barnabas xviii-xx. "The narrow gate" is repeated in verse 14 and

straitened the way ( τεθλιμμενη η οδος ) added. The way is "compressed," narrowed as in a defile between high rocks, a tight place like στενοχωρια in Ro 8:35. "The way that leads to life involves straits and afflictions" (McNeile). Vincent quotes the Pinax or Tablet of Cebes, a contemporary of Socrates: "Seest thou not, then, a little door, and a way before the door, which is not much crowded, but very few travel it? This is the way that leadeth unto true culture." "The broad way" ( ευρυχωρος ) is in every city, town, village, with the glaring white lights that lure to destruction.