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Revelation 3:7
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Christ holding the key of David, who opens and no one shuts
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Jerome alludes to this verse in discussing who can open the sealed book of Scripture
"unless he opens it who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts, who shuts and no one opens"
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Cited by Jerome (via Lapide) as the key that alone opens Scripture
"unless all the things that are written are opened by Him who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts, who shuts and no one opens, they will be disclosed by no one else."