Revelation 22:15… Why aren dogs allowed in heaven?
22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Dogs were closely associated with Hecate and both were connected with magical herbs, with the underworld, and so with the dead. The dead and their spirits played a significant role in ancient Greek and Roman thought, and that realm was one that could not be ignored by those who wanted to insist that the “living one” has “the keys of death and Hades” (Rev 1:18). Who has lordship over the dead: the ouranic Lord symbolized by the Lamb or the chthonic Hecate, symbolized by her dogs? That might also be at issue in Revelation 22:14-15 and possibly in Revelation as a whole. It is sometimes suggested that “the dogs” of 22:15 is a summary term for all the practitioners that follow in the list. So “the dogs … are here defin
