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The Key
Authority to open and to shut — every tradition gives the key as the sign of stewardship, knowledge, and the gates of the kingdom.
Christianity
"And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven..."
"Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge..."
"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore... and have the keys of hell and of death."
"...These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth..."